Weekly Update --- Trump’s Budget: More Warfare, Slightly Less Welfare

Published: Feb. 19, 2020, 2:39 p.m.

Listening to the howls from Democrats and the applause from Republicans, one would think President Trump’s proposed fiscal year 2021 budget is a radical assault on the welfare state. The truth is the budget contains some minor spending cuts, most of which are not even real cuts. Instead they are reductions in the “projected rate of growth.”