{"id":18694,"date":"2017-03-16T09:15:17","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T14:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=18694"},"modified":"2017-03-16T09:15:17","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T14:15:17","slug":"video-america-first-a-budget-blueprint-to-make-america-great-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2017\/03\/16\/video-america-first-a-budget-blueprint-to-make-america-great-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: America First &#8211; A Budget Blueprint to Make America Great Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/v\/embed.js?id=5361533265001&#038;w=466&#038;h=263\"><\/script><noscript>Watch the latest video at &lt;a href=&#8221;http:\/\/video.foxnews.com&#8221;&gt;video.foxnews.com&lt;\/a&gt;<\/noscript><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"border: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; font-family: Georgia, 'Old Standard TT', serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #444444; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\">3\/16\/17 &#8211; President Trump&#8217;s America First budget seeks a boost in defense spending of about\u00a0$54 billion\u00a0and major cuts in other federal agencies. You may read President Trump&#8217;s budget here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/sites\/whitehouse.gov\/files\/omb\/budget\/fy2018\/2018_blueprint.pdf\">America First &#8211; A Budget Blueprint to Make America Great Again<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"border: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; font-family: Georgia, 'Old Standard TT', serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #444444; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\"><span class=\"s1\">WASHINGTON (Courthouse News) \u2013 President Donald Trump\u2019s first budget calls for a $54 billion increase in military spending, offset by deep cuts to the State Department, the Environmental Protection Agency and other domestic groups.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"border: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; font-family: Georgia, 'Old Standard TT', serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #444444; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\"><span class=\"s1\">The boom in defense spending is a 10 percent increase from the levels contained in the budget deal Congress struck last year. Dubbed the \u201cAmerica First Budget,\u201d Trump says the increase will help members of the military \u201cdo only one thing: win.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"border: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; font-family: Georgia, 'Old Standard TT', serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #444444; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\"><span class=\"s1\">Some of the additional $2.6 billion Trump wants set aside for border-security measures will go toward building a wall along the southern border.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"border: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; font-family: Georgia, 'Old Standard TT', serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #444444; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cOur aim is to meet the simple, but crucial demand of our citizens \u2013 a government that puts the needs of its own people first,\u201d Trump\u2019s message to Congress that opens the budget reads. \u201cWhen we do that, we will set free the dreams of every American, and we will begin a new chapter of American greatness.\u201d<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-17871\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/President-Trump-254x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"254\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/President-Trump-254x300.jpg 254w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/President-Trump.jpg 384w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 254px) 100vw, 254px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"border: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; font-family: Georgia, 'Old Standard TT', serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #444444; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\"><span class=\"s1\">The Trump budget completely pays for the increase in defense spending by cutting nondefense programs. Hit hardest are the EPA, whose budget Trump would slash by 31 percent, and the State Department, which would lose 28 percent of its funding.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"border: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; font-family: Georgia, 'Old Standard TT', serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #444444; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWe are going to do more with less and make the government lean and accountable to the people,\u201d Trump wrote in his message to Congress.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"border: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; font-family: Georgia, 'Old Standard TT', serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #444444; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\"><span class=\"s1\">The budget outright eliminates funding for a number of cultural programs, including the National Endowment for the Arts and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Also getting the ax would be the Legal Services Corp., which helps fund legal aid for low-income people across the country.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch the latest video at &lt;a href=&#8221;http:\/\/video.foxnews.com&#8221;&gt;video.foxnews.com&lt;\/a&gt; 3\/16\/17 &#8211; President Trump&#8217;s America First budget seeks a boost in defense spending of about\u00a0$54 billion\u00a0and major cuts in other federal agencies. You may read President Trump&#8217;s budget here: America First &#8211; A Budget Blueprint to Make America Great Again WASHINGTON (Courthouse News) \u2013 President Donald Trump\u2019s first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18695,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18694\/revisions\/18695"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}