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Sheep: The White House released its budget proposal. It's called "Efficient, Effective, Accountable: An American Budget". It's a real blockbuster. Goat: Back in 2011 President Obama issued Executive Order number 13576, titled "Delivering an Efficient, Effective, and Accountable Government". Sheep: So Trump is keeping something from the Obama years! Goat: Only Trump's idea of efficient and effective includes ending all research programs related to climate change and eliminating the National Endowment for the Arts and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Sheep: Budget cuts have to hit someone. Our deficits were too high anyway! Goat: Oh, ha ha, there isn't a budget cut here. After the tax cut on corporations and the wealthy, this proposes an increase in military spending.

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The new budget is out but it's less Spielberg and more Michael Bay. Trump's wishlist includes the destruction of the NEA and the CPB, killing some key NASA programs in favor of, I'm going to assume, funneling more space money to the military and private companies his friends run, and various other cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, SNAP, WIC, and so on, about which more tomorrow.

If you think all these cuts are necessary to curb runaway spending, ha, joke's on you, Obama's spending was by no means profligate (or especially out of line with his predecessors'), and anyhow Trump doesn't want to curb spending, just spending on you. He's perfectly happy to lob freebies at the rich and the military and that all would to add up to an increase of the deficit. P.S. Deficits are not, in and of themselves, bad things.

Curious that Trump borrowed President Obama's phrase, though.