U.S. Budget Negotiations

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Senate Republicans Seek to Protect NASA Programs Targeted for Cuts​

Plan would allocate billions in funding toward major space exploration effort and the International Space Station​

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/senate-republicans-seek-to-protect-nasa-programs-targeted-for-cuts-d7cc4415?mod=mhp

 

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Of course, they're basically trying to keep their pet projects and boondoggles for their states while sacrificing programs like Medicaid that help the poor, a group that the GOP cares nothing about and holds in contempt. The compromise budget bill that emerges from all this will likely spare a few of the programs that the House GOP wanted cut or abolished, still cut taxes aimed at the wealthy getting the largest cut, explode the deficit even worse than the House GOP version would, and still gut programs like Medicaid aimed at the less-fortunate. They'll also cut Medicare by claiming that they are only going after the virtually nonexistent "fraud" in the system, when that will just be an excuse to cut the program's budget.