Pelosi Waves Off Impeachment Legal Challenge from California About $165 Billion in Defense and Other States

A Conservative On Line Weekly Newspaper For Kansas 3 VOLUME 27, N UMBER 39 Thursday, March 14, 2019 Highlights of Trump’s $4.7 trillion budget request WASHINGTON (AP) — sible Federal Budget, warned out for several automakers. The program meant to help schools President Donald Trump’s $4.7 that the debt load will lead to plan is unlikely to win approval improve instruction and a $1.2 trillion budget request proposes slower income growth and in the Democratic-controlled billion program to create com- steep cuts to domestic spending, stalled opportunities for Amer- House. munity centers. a funding boost for the Penta- icans. Meanwhile, it would add gon and $8.6 billion for his sig- REPEALING OBA- $60 million for charter schools nature border wall with Mexico. ENVIRONMENTAL MACARE — AGAIN and $200 million for school Leading Democrats immedi- SPENDING SLASHED The budget request would re- safety initiatives. ately rejected the plan, signal- Trump again is asking Con- open two health care battles Education Secretary Betsy ing another bruising fight just gress to slash funding for the Trump already lost in his first DeVos says the plan would end weeks after a standoff that led Environmental Protection year in office: repealing “Oba- programs better handled at the to a 35-day partial government Agency by about a third, a re- macare” and limiting future state or local level. She also shutdown, the longest in U.S. quest that Congress has previ- federal spending on Medicaid proposed up to $5 billion in history. ously rejected. The budget for low-income people. Under federal tax credits to support A look at the highlights from request seeks $6.1 billion for the budget, major sections of school choice scholarships. the White House proposal: the EPA, down 31 percent from both the Affordable Care Act current spending. The White and Medicaid would be turned MORE CHOICE FOR BORDER WALL FIGHT House says it aims to ensure over to the states starting in VETERANS RENEWED clean air and water and chemi- 2021. The White House is seeking Trump’s proposal for the fis- cal safety, while “reducing reg- With Democrats in charge of just over $93 billion for the De- cal year that begins Oct. 1 in- ulatory burden and eliminating the House, Trump’s grand plan partment of Veterans Affairs, cludes $8.6 billion to build the lower-priority activities.” has no chance of being enacted. an increase of $6.5 billion from U.S-Mexico border wall. The But Ken Cook of the Envi- And few Republican lawmak- current spending. proposal shows Trump is eager ronmental Working Group says ers want to be dragged into an- The request would support to renew his confrontation with it would work to appease other health care fight. implementation of a law Congress over the wall, a cen- Trump’s political base and Trump signed last year to give terpiece of his agenda that con- boost the fossil fuel and chemi- EDUCATION CUT, veterans more freedom to see cal industries. gressional Democrats have Presiden Donald Trump SCHOOL CHOICE EX- doctors outside the troubled VA staunchly resisted. PANDED system, a major shift aimed at $750 billion — and building the Even with his own projec- The budget would kill the The budget request would cut reducing wait times and im - The budget request for more new Space Force as a military tions, Trump’s budget would federal tax credit for electric ve- Education Department funding proving care by steering more than 300 miles (480 kilometers) branch — while reducing non- not come into balance for a hicles among a range of energy- by 10 percent while expanding patients to the private sector. of new border wall would more defense accounts by 5 percent. decade and a half, rather than related tax changes. money for school choice, The plan again targets reducing than double the $8.1 billion po- The $2.7 trillion in proposed the traditional hope of balanc- Republicans have launched sev- school safety and apprentice- veteran suicides as a top prior- tentially available to the presi- domestic spending cuts over the ing in 10 years. eral efforts to end the $7,500 ship programs. The $64 billion ity and sets aside $4.3 billion to dent for the wall after Trump next decade is higher than any Maya MacGuineas, president tax credit for electric vehicles, proposal would eliminate 29 improve the department’s com- declared a national emergency administration in history. Pro- of the Committee for a Respon- which is already set to phase programs, including a $2 billion puter system and website. at the border last month. The posed cuts include economic politically contentious declara- safety-net programs used by tion would circumvent Con- millions of Americans. gress, though there’s no guarantee Trump will be able to To stay within prescribed use the money in the face of a budget caps, the proposal shifts Pelosi waves off impeachment legal challenge from California about $165 billion in defense and other states. Lawmakers spending to an overseas contin- WASHINGTON (AP) — rats has shifted, slightly, in part new Congress. Some new at Pelosi’s comments more from both parties oppose the gency fund, an action that crit- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is because of the possibility that freshman Democrats who hail practically. Rep. Brad Sherman, emergency declaration, but ics view as an accounting setting a high bar for impeach- Mueller’s report will not be de- from solidly liberal districts D-Calif., who filed articles of Congress appears to lack a gimmick. ment of President Donald cisive and because his investi- haven’t shied away from the impeachment against Trump on veto-proof margin to block The head of the American Trump, saying he is “just not gation is more narrowly subject — Michigan Rep. the first day of the new Con- Trump. Federation of Government Em- worth it” even as some on her focused. Instead, House De- Rashida Tlaib used a vulgarity gress in January, acknowledged ployees, J. David Cox, called left flank clamor to start pro- mocrats are pursuing their own in calling for Trump’s im- that there is not yet public sup- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi the budget “a kick in the teeth” ceedings. broad, high-profile investiga- peachment the day she was port for impeachment, but noted and Senate Democratic leader to federal workers who’ve en- tions that will keep the focus on sworn in. that Pelosi “didn’t say ‘I am Chuck Schumer said Trump dured years of pay freezes and Pelosi said in an interview Trump’s business dealings and Billionaire activist Tom against it if the public is clam- “was forced to admit defeat” benefits cuts and just emerged with The Washington Post that relationship with Russia, exert- Steyer, who is bankrolling a oring for it.’” after Congress refused to fund from the 35-day partial shut- “I’m not for impeachment” of ing congressional oversight campaign pushing for Trump’s Sherman said that the multi- the wall in the current budget, down. The proposal “shows a Trump. without having to broach the I- impeachment, shot back at ple Democratic investigations and they predicted a similar complete disconnect with the “Unless there’s something so word. Pelosi on Monday: “Speaker of Trump might be a substitute outcome if he continues to press needs of the civil servants who compelling and overwhelming Pelosi thinks ‘he’s just not for impeachment, “it’s also pos- for money for the wall. Money are America’s workforce,” Cox and bipartisan, I don’t think we Oversight and Reform Com- worth it?’ Well, is defending sible it will be a prelude.” targeted for the wall “would be said. should go down that path, be- mittee Chairman Elijah Cum- our legal system ‘worth it?’ Is Republicans alternately better spent on rebuilding cause it divides the country,” mings, one of the lawmakers holding the president account- praised Pelosi and were skepti- America,” they said. RED INK FLOWS she said. leading those investigations, able for his crimes and cover- cal. White House press secre- Under Trump’s proposal, the While she has made similar said he agrees with Pelosi and ups ‘worth it?’ Is doing what’s tary Sarah Sanders said “I The budget asks Congress to budget deficit is projected to hit comments before, Pelosi is Congress needs “to do our right ‘worth it?’ Or shall Amer- agree” in response to Pelosi’s set up a fund of up to $2 billion $1.1 trillion next year — the making clear to her caucus and homework.” He said impeach- ica just stop fighting for our words. to pay for sheltering migrant highest in a decade. The admin- to voters that Democrats will ment “has to be a bipartisan ef- principles and do what’s polit- Sanders added of impeach- children who arrive with their istration is counting on robust not move forward quickly with fort, and right now it’s not ically convenient.” ment, “I don’t think it should families or alone at the U.S. economic growth, including trying to remove Trump from there.” Neil Sroka of the liberal ad- have ever been on the table.” border. from the 2017 Republican tax office. And it’s a departure from “I get the impression this vocacy group Democracy for House Republican Leader cuts, to push down the red ink. her previous comments that De- matter will only be resolved at America said Pelosi’s com- Kevin McCarthy said it was a BIG BOOST FOR DE- Some economists say the eco- mocrats are waiting on special the polls,” Cummings said.

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