The requested article has expired, and is no longer available. Any related articles, and user comments are shown below.
© Thomson Reuters 2020.Trump's $4.8 trillion budget gets chilly reception from Congress
By Jeff Mason and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
35 Comments
PTownsend
Trump's promise? Like Mexico paying for his wall? Like cutting the debt? Only some in Trump's hard core base believe much of what he says. Or he might have said depending on which of the 15,000 plus lies he's told to date he wants to push. Until he flip-flips or says the 'media' (i.e. any outlet that might question him) misquoted him - even though they'd reported exactly what he'd 'said'. Zero credibility. And he's attracted followers who'll parrot his lies.
Adding to the debt? Conservative he isn't. He's a snake oil salesman for the .01% and his family businesses. His family are getting richer while they're getting insider info while working in his admin. His golf courses profit while he's playing golf paid for by the taxpayers.
Serrano
His golf courses profit while he's playing golf paid for by the taxpayers
Taxpayers have paid for every president's golf outings including Obama's, what's the big deal?
Trump doesn't take a salary. And his policies have rejuvenated the economy, lifting all boats.
Choice is clear. Re-elect Trump and give the House back to the Republicans and keep this economy moving.
Or elect the Dem candidate and give the Senate back to the Dems and watch the economy implode.
non party
yes yes yes ... all are very much satisfying cry for a left, communist, antifa, and soros children....
Those who accuse Trump for lie! speaks a big mouth full of dirty lies..
Trump is a business man even before he became President. After becoming president 25% of his business is down. NO democrats or any Trump haters never used his hotels or golf courses, and even they discouraged people , So his business is down..
Next He or his family who are working in the white house receive no salary YES NO SALARY. Then how he makes money bro????
Like Obama he did not get any underground money. Like Biden or Nancy or Kerry none of Trump's children is getting paid from Ukraine or China.
Now another accusation When trump play golf the fees paid by tax payers!!!! Obama's golf and vocation , Clinton's Golf and vocation all are paid by tax payers money.
*SuperLib
Trump has yet to hiit 3% growth ever despite tax cuts, interest rate cuts, and record low unemployment.
What's going on?
CrazyJoe
There should be a group of Republicans opposing the president's deficit spending. They could call it "The Tea Party" or something like that.
Serrano
Trump has yet to hiit 3% growth ever despite tax cuts, interest rate cuts, and record low unemployment.
What's going on?
An economic boom, with record low unemployment and millions lifted out of welfare. :D
David Varnes
Inconceivable! Next thing you know, they'll say they should nominate the former governor of some state like, I don't know, Alaska or something to be the VP!
bass4funk
Current-dollar GDP increased 4.1 percent, or $848.8 billion, in 2019 to a level of $21.43 trillion, compared with an increase of 5.4 percent, or $1,060.8 billion, in 2018
We’re now in the 4th quarter, be patient, we already hit the gravy train. It’ll tick up again, you should be happy, this will definitely keep Trump in power and more difficult to beat in November.
Democrats need to stock up on the Mylanta.
bass4funk
How? Specifics please.
It’s legal. They were his business before he became President, so what’s your point?
SuperLib
Trump has never hit 3% annual growth. The 4th quarter won't change that this year. No amount of copy and paste will change that. Not will deflections.
You railed on Obama for year for not reaching 3% annually. Even Trump's record low unemployment follows a straight line from the Obama years. If you looked a graph you'd have no idea when Trump became president.
bass4funk
He did in 2018 like with Trump’s acquittal, it’s in the record books.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-economy-gdp/u-s-second-quarter-gdp-growth-raised-to-4-2-percent-idUSKCN1LE1GB
Wouldn't do that.
Yes, especially having a slow and stagnant job growth in the private sector.
Not when it comes to the Black unemployment.
Reuter's, the Second most liberal outlet that hates Trump..hmm....
Toasted Heretic
A failed business man who scammed many, many people.
Nobody should trust this criminal with their money.
lincolnman
Hmmmm...not what Trump's Dept of Commerce says on its website; GDP 2017: 2.6%, 2018: 2.9%, 2019: 2.3%. GDP growth is decreasing under Trump - understandable given trade wars and tariffs - you know, those thing Repubs used to hate.
https://www.bea.gov/system/files/2020-01/gdp4q19_adv_0.pdf
Burst that fairy tale balloon - Trump's economy is far worse than Obama's - and is more like his fellow Repub Bush II - who caused the Great Recession of 2007.
When it comes to the economy, Clinton cleaned up for Bush 1, Obama cleaned up for Bush II, Biden, Bernie, or Buttigeig will clean up for D3 (Donnie the Dimwit and Disaster)...
Wolfpack
So with annual budget deficits of $1 trillion baked in due to social spending being excluded from discretionary authority, these “cuts” will increase the total federal debt by a mere $5 trillion over the next decade? I’m not impressed.
SuperLib
No, bass. He didn't.
You still mix quarterly and annually. Obama also hit over 4% quarterly.
Yes, bass. Black unemployment fell for both. It's a straight line down from Obama to Trump.
Jist yelling "socialist!" at everyone doesn't make you an economist. Everything you posted is wrong.
bass4funk
He sure did.
Not really.
January, 2009, 11.6 million Americans were unemployed, with 23% of those unemployed for more than 6 months. By January, 2012, 12.8 million were unemployed, with 43% of those out of work more than 6 months.
At the official end of the recession in June, 2009, America was 12.6 million jobs short of full employment. By January, 2012, we were 15.2 million jobs short, falling behind by another 244,000 in that month alone.
No, not really.
For blacks, the unemployment rate was still 13.6%, even assuming another 350,000 African Americans dropping out of the labor force in January alone. For Hispanics, 650,000 were assumed to drop out of the work force in January alone, but the Hispanic unemployment rate was still in double digits at 10.5%.
For teenagers, the unemployment rate was still 23.2%, even though an additional 400,000 were assumed to have dropped out of the work force in January alone. For black teenagers, the unemployment rate was still nearly 40%.
No, this is why Dems are in danger of losing again, and it just feels so good to watch that train wreck unfold.
pointofview
@Plasticmonkey,
There is really no difference between Trump supporters agreeing with trump and Lefties disagreeing with him. When a Dem president is in it's also the same.
PTownsend
Aren't you happy that with the Internet and a free, for-profit press you're able to find a full range of perspectives, including ones that match yours.
ulysses
Spot on!!!
A budget which attacks social welfare and Medicare is not going to go through.
lincolnman
What? That wall he promised to build in 2016 and now three years later and it ain't built? And why is funding in OUR budget and not Mexico's? Remember, "Mark my words"? What a Loser...
Repub Mantra: Unborn children, we love you - once you're born and need food and care, you know, things that cost money - tough luck...
BINGO! GDP estimated at 2.2% this year and less than 2.0% in the out-years. That's pathetic! Trump will have a series of consecutive years of decreased GDP - the key definition of a failing economy!
Two things you can count on with a Repub President - 1) a new war in the Middle East, and 2) a pitiful, failing economy...
bass4funk
Unemployment decreased more under Obama
https://www.bostonherald.com/2020/01/22/the-truth-behind-obamas-job-numbers/
A chart from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics shows the trend in labor force participation and the unemployment rate adjusted for labor force dropouts from 2009 to 2019. The strange thing about the Obama recovery was more jobs and less willing workers. When a person isn’t looking for a job, for whatever reason, they do not get labeled as unemployed. The joke a few years ago was that Obama would shrink the unemployment rate to zero through the magic formula of driving millions out of the workforce. In a world where everyone is living off of welfare or a trust fund, and no one is looking for a job — there are officially no unemployed people.
ulysses
Donny’s base of uneducated, poorly employed might be fine with reducing student load subsidies, it’s not of any use to them.
But when it comes to social welfare and Medicare they’ll not be happy for sure .
bass4funk
Rally's outperforming and sold out over anything any Democrat candidate can muster and growing, damn these poorly unedumacated people.
ulysses
Don't believe everything Donny tells you.
As we have seen from history the extreme right has fewer people who make a lot of noise and who then crash and burn.
SuperLib
Sweet. I've been asking for this. It's the narrative that said Obama's declining unemployment rate somehow wasn't real, then that all changed when Trump took office. The exact same measurement became real again. I asked for the several times and finally I get it delivered to me.
So it's like this: Trump's unemployment numbers aren't real because they don't take into account people who have stopped looking for jobs. It's all smoke and mirrors. I'm assuming, just like the article above, that the number is real and very high.
Also, if you are going to post someone else's work, at least have the courtesy of giving them credit, Mr. Journalist.
lincolnman
I'm not for labeling or denigrating people, but what can you say when you see this at a Trump rally...
The Jacobsons met Chrisy and her husband, Paul, hours earlier in the line to get into the Jan 14 rally. The couples bonded over their shared interest in QAnon, which centers on the baseless belief that Trump is waging a secret campaign against enemies in the “deep state” and a child sex trafficking ring run by satanic pedophiles and cannibals.
What started as an online obsession for the far-right fringe has grown beyond its origins in a dark corner of the internet. QAnon has been creeping into the mainstream political arena for more than a year. The trend shows no sign of abating as Trump fires up his reelection campaign operation, attracting a loyal audience of conspiracy theorists and other fringe groups to his raucous rallies.
Many followers believe the late John F. Kennedy Jr. is a Trump supporter who faked his death in a 1999 plane crash. Another core belief is that thousands of deep state operatives and top Democrats, including Hillary Clinton and Obama, will be rounded up and sent to Guantanamo Bay during an event called “The Storm.”
Trump has retweeted QAnon-promoting accounts. Followers flock to Trump’s rallies wearing clothes and hats with QAnon symbols and slogans.
https://apnews.com/e230131513bf3df60c76bb1151bc6b7c
bass4funk
Liberals want to continue to ride the Trump train for another 4 years? Yeah, we get it. Lol
Well, that is not true actually, you have more people looking for jobs and especially in the blue collar industry you have more jobs than people to fill them or as we call it, gravy.
Obama’s was precisely that. But he’s gone, so it’s doesn’t matter now.
stormcrow
Well, he gave a trillion dollars to the upper 1% who didn't need anything in the first place. A clear example of pure greed. Now he wants to cut Social Security, Medicare, etc., for the people who actually do need it. A clear example of how little the rich know about those who live in the struggling classes beneath them. Wall St. is doing great but the middle class is having the heck of it squeezed out. Another 4 years of Trump is going to be unmerciful for a lot of hard working folks who aren't rich at all.
Chip Star
You completely missed it. Hahaha!
This does nothing to refute the assertion that the unemployment numbers don’t reflect people that have stopped looking for work.
If this were remotely true, the current bull market wouldn’t have begun under Obama.
Is really is too easy refuting the alternative facts Trumpophiles can’t stop themselves from pushing.
SuperLib
That's how the GOP works in America. Cut taxes for the rich, create a deficit, then scream that we have to get the deficit under control by.....cutting social services.
SuperLib
19 times Trump called jobs numbers ‘fake’ before they made him look good
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/03/10/19-times-trump-called-the-jobs-numbers-fake-before-they-made-him-look-good/
"If there was any argument over whether Trump was flip-flopping on the jobs report at the precise moment it reflected positively on him, White House press secretary Sean Spicer laid it to rest Friday afternoon, telling reporters: “I talked to the president prior to this, and he said to quote him very clearly: 'They may have been phony in the past, but it’s very real now.' ”
Get it? Phony under Obama, real under Trump. The used the fake numbers narrative and then suddenly dropped it when Donald was put into office.
Oh, and Trump has yet to hit 3% annual growth. I'll just keep telling you that until it sinks in. You used to constantly bash Obama for not reaching that number.