I’m speaking at the Aspen Ideas Festival, June 25-28. I don’t have details yet, but will post when I do.
The Trump Administration has issued its proposed budget.
It begins with the rhetoric characteristic of this administration.
The recommended funding levels result from a rigorous, line-by-line review of FY 2025 spending, which was found to be laden with spending contrary to the needs of ordinary working Americans and tilted toward funding niche non-governmental organizations and institutions of higher education committed to radical gender and climate ideologies antithetical to the American way of life.
If anything, these proposals are totally contrary to the needs of ordinary working Americans, so much so that it’s hard to know where to begin, but let’s start with some selections from the USDA summary on page 31.
On this last one: Oh no. Not that again. The boxes are a logistic nightmare , absurdly expensive, and do not help any except the largest farmers.
Note that there is nothing here about SNAP, which comes out of USDA’s budget. SNAP is an entitlement; only Congress can cut its budget, and would have to do so through the Farm Bill.
Fortunately, these are proposals, which means there is at least a chance that Congress won’t agree to them.