That's a lot of cutting
The budget is really just a suggestion to Congress but it will shape part of the discussion.
As part of the $1.7 trillion in cuts, it suggests a $237B cut (over 10 years) to Medicare spending. On net it class for 2% cuts per year to non-defense discretionary spending, according to a summary obtained by Bloomberg.
- Calls for $716 billion for defense
- $80 billion in IT and cyber-funding
- $17 billion for opioid-related spending in 2019
- $18 billion for border wall
That's almost as much money for opioids next year as infrastructure. That's a lot of money to spend on painkillers but it might just be window-dressing if that's money of 'enforcement'. In that sense, it could just be a way to fund the police state.
