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The Trump administration is proposing sweeping cuts across healthcare, education, housing, and research while boosting Pentagon spending to as much as $1.5 trillion under a wartime economy strategy. #DonaldTrump #Budget #Economy #Spending

The proposal includes over $8B in cuts to public schools, $5B from NIH medical research, $4B from EV infrastructure, and $2B from clean water systems, along wit... https://instagr.am/p/DWtW5aOEbWS/

voteinorout on Instagram: "The Trump administration is proposing sweeping cuts across healthcare, education, housing, and research while boosting Pentagon spending to as much as $1.5 trillion under a wartime economy strategy. #DonaldTrump #Budget #Economy #Spending The proposal includes over $8B in cuts to public schools, $5B from NIH medical research, $4B from EV infrastructure, and $2B from clean water systems, along with $1B+ reductions in job training, housing, and NOAA programs. Additional cuts target school meals, homelessness programs, small business funding, NASA, and international partnerships. The shift redirects resources away from domestic programs toward military spending, impacting healthcare access, education systems, and local economic support nationwide. — NEWS: Trump is looking to make massive cuts to programs you rely on. Follow @aaronparnas for more. Help this information get to more voters. 🇺🇸 A well-informed electorate is a prerequisite to Democracy.—Thomas Jefferson"

30 likes, 2 comments - voteinorout on April 4, 2026: "The Trump administration is proposing sweeping cuts across healthcare, education, housing, and research while boosting Pentagon spending to as much as $1.5 trillion under a wartime economy strategy. #DonaldTrump #Budget #Economy #Spending The proposal includes over $8B in cuts to public schools, $5B from NIH medical research, $4B from EV infrastructure, and $2B from clean water systems, along with $1B+ reductions in job training, housing, and NOAA programs. Additional cuts target school meals, homelessness programs, small business funding, NASA, and international partnerships. The shift redirects resources away from domestic programs toward military spending, impacting healthcare access, education systems, and local economic support nationwide. — NEWS: Trump is looking to make massive cuts to programs you rely on. Follow @aaronparnas for more. Help this information get to more voters. 🇺🇸 A well-informed electorate is a prerequisite to Democracy.—Thomas Jefferson".

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WIST Quotations 14h ago

A quotation from Terry Pratchett

   The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.
   Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.
   But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.

Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Discworld No. 15, Men at Arms (1993)

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#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrypratchett #discworld #vimes #advantage #boots #investment #poverty #quality #rich #savings #spending #wealth

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Nonilex 1d ago

#Trump also asked lawmakers to increase federal funding for #border enforcement & mass #deportations.

In the days before releasing the initial details of his plan, Trump & aides framed the proposed increase for #defense in urgent terms, citing a need to restock munitions & supplies as the #war with #Iran continues. At one point, Trump indicated at a lunch that #military #spending needed to be a national priority, even at the expense of federal safety-net programs & other govt #aid….

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Nonilex 1d ago

Together, the ideas sum to a fiscal blueprint that could add trillions of dollars to the brimming federal #debt over the next decade, if lawmakers translate Trump’s full vision into #law without other changes to federal #spending.

#Trump urged #Congress to approve the new #defense money, >$1.1 trillion, as part of its work to fund the government, & to enact the remaining $350 billion using the same #legislative tactic that allowed #Republicans to clinch their tax cuts last year.

#kakistocracy

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Nonilex 1d ago

With the #US at #war with #Iran & embroiled in conflicts around the world, the White House said on Friday that it would ask #Congress to approve about $1.5 trillion for #defense in the 2027 fiscal year. If enacted, that amount would set #military #spending at its highest level in history.

The request, which arrived on Friday as part of Trump’s new #budget, would amount to a whopping 40% bump from what the US spent on the #Pentagon this fiscal year.

#Trump #kakistocracy #USpol #Project2025 #law

LifyStyleByAmanda 1d ago

#Spending #PersonalFinance The SKI Travel Trend Is Reshaping Retirement Spending http://is.gd/8nOfln

Scott Pfitzinger 1d ago

Exactly!

#priorities #politics #Iran #spending #healthcare

Richard Michael Blaber 2d ago

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/02/iran-war-expenses-cuts-america-power-dollarization; https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/01/inflationary-shock-pay-the-price-uk-energy-crisis-us-iran-war. "The upshot for #Americans is that this country will be less powerful globally. The ability to apply #financial #sanctions only works if you control the levers of international #finance... Our #borrowing #costs will also go up as #demand for the #dollar diminishes - which means higher #prices... In the longer term it may also mean #austerity - if we can’t borrow to finance #spending... we’ll have to cut expenses to balance #budgets."

The US-Israel war on Iran is accelerating de-dollarization and America’s decline

De-dollarization promises to reorder the world, reducing American power globally

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CBC Politics 2d ago

To meet next NATO spending target, Canada needs a credible fiscal plan, think-tank says
After hitting NATO's two per cent GDP spending target in March 2026, Canada now faces a daunting climb to five per cent by 2035, according to the CD Howe Institute, one of the country’s leading economic think-tanks.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/defence-nato-budget-spending-fiscal-9.7150814?cmp=rss

Global News 2d ago

Atlantic Canadian health spending could double in 20 years without changes: report
The council says spending on health care will reach $40 billion by 2046 if the four provincial governments don’t build more efficient and financially sustainable systems.
#Health #Healthspending
https://globalnews.ca/news/11755021/atlantic-canadian-health-spending/