93.9 The Eagle – The News and Talk of Columbia, MO
(AP) President Donald Trump’s fiscal 2021 budget plan doesn’t have many fans, among either his GOP allies or opposition Democrats, but it’s a measure of the president’s priorities as he seeks a second term.
News flash: It’s short on politically painful cuts to Medicare and Social Security, sometimes called the third rails of politics, touch them and you die. But it proposes cuts to domestic programs that Trump himself has never tried to put into place.
Trump’s fiscal missive contains plenty of nuggets for budget geeks but little for Washington’s deficit scolds, who see its prescriptions for balancing the budget within 15 years as unrealistic.
