Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R – KY) today rejected President Trump’s proposed budget for cuts in US foreign aid spending, accusing Trump of trying to “dictate” to Congress on the budget, and insisting that cuts to State Department spending “aren’t appropriate.”
President Trump’s budget envisions broad cuts in a number of government departments, including “dramatic” reductions in foreign aid, with the money going to a substantial increase in military spending. The goal was for the cuts to allow the military spending increase without raising the deficit.
Though there appears to be broad support for increasing military spending, most of the Congressional leadership seems averse to making any cuts to pay for it, with Sen. McConnell insisting that the US should keep funding the State Department because diplomacy is sometimes appropriate and “certainly cheaper than military engagement.”
Absent in the debate about making the spending cuts so far is any suggestion of returning the money to the taxpayers, and McConnell’s argument about diplomacy being “cheaper” appears to be largely irrelevant since it isn’t tied to any proposal to use diplomacy as an alternative to fighting more wars, and McConnell has provided no indication he is averse to the military spending.
No greater obstructionists to this president than his own party members. The one and only thing I admire about the Dems is they ALL line up behind their presidents and get things done. Bad things to be sure, but they get them done, everyone is singing from the same sheet of music. The GOP?? Never. They truly are The Stupid Party.
Excellent!
Another example of some deeper thinking than what’s in Trump’s brain. And it’s surely not foreign military aid because Trump is escalating that part of it!
Could somebody please ask Raimondo how this contradiction could be occurring?
Another example of the need for term limits to cleanse the Senate and House of the old bulls and cows.