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  1. Trump's 2021 budget calls for drastic cuts to funding for the Centers for Disease Control and the World Health Organization that would significantly reduce preparedness for a pandemic at home.  Trump’s argument for cutting spending for a federal agency at the forefront of the efforts to combat the coronavirus, is that he's a stable genius who knows more about fighting viruses and diseases than all the doctors and scientists combined. He says that windmills are the source of the coronavirus, the same way that windmills are the number cause of cancer. The budget Trump purposed would cut Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program and also wring savings from Medicare despite Trump’s repeated promises to safeguard Medicare and Social Security. It takes aim at domestic spending, which include  slashing the Environmental Protection Agency budget by 26.5 percent over the next year. 😲 Because clean air and clean water are way overrated. A little lead in the water never hurt anyone. Trump's budget also plans to cut the budget of the Health and Human Services department by 9 percent. HHS includes the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which will see a budget cut even as the coronavirus spreads. It would target the Education Department  for a nearly 8 percent cut, the Interior Department would be cut 13.4 percent, and the Housing and Urban Development department would be cut 15.2 percent. The State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development would be cut by 22 percent. Even with all the proposed spending cuts, the budget would fail to eliminate the federal deficit over the next 10 years, missing a longtime GOP fiscal target. Instead, White House officials plan to say their budget proposal would close the deficit by 2035. But it would only achieve this if the economy grows at an unprecedented, sustained 3 percent clip through 2025, levels the administration has failed to achieve for even one year so far. The U.S. economy grew 2.3 percent in 2019, the weakest level since Trump took office.
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