A budget for a collapsing America

Trump’s budget more than doubles the war-fighting slush fund and proposes cutting social safety net by 9% at a time when White House rhetoric against Iran is heating up and Netanyahu, Mohammed bin Salman, and Trump all face corruption charges and challenges at home.

Col. Lawrence Wilkerson interviewed by Paul Jay.

The ugly numbers: 

• Trump's budget calls for $750 billion in military spending for FY2020, a nearly 5% increase, which exceeds even what the Pentagon requested

• Trump’s budget calls for cutting $845 billion from Medicare (health care for the elderly)
• Trump’s budget calls for cutting $1.5 trillion from Medicaid (health care for the poor)
• Trump’s budget calls for cutting $25 billion from the Social Security retirement program
• Trump’s budget calls for cutting $1.7 billion from child nutrition and eliminate food assistance for millions
• Trump's budget calls for cutting $1 billion from the National Science Foundation (The NSF provides about one-quarter of all federal research grants and covers fields such as engineering, mathematics, computer science and social sciences. It also funds the purchase of large-scale scientific equipment.)
•  And many more social & environmental programs would be cut and destroyed by the Trump budget

It's not just Trump's budget,
it was Obama's budget,
it was Bush's budget,
it was Clinton's budget,
it was Bush's budget,
it was Reagan's budget,
it was Carter's budget.

It is the budget of corporations and politicians who continue to exploit the working class.

Now is the time for the American people to rattle their chains and demand that Congress CUT THE BLOATED AND WASTEFUL PENTAGON BUDGET!

FORGET THE ATTACKS ON SOCIAL PROGRAMS!