HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, IT'S TIME TO RIP IT DOWN.
THE WASHINGTON POST REPORTING --
>>UNDERSTAND THAT THIS HAS TWO
BENEFITS FOR DONALD TRUMP AND
THE REPUBLICANS.
THEY GET TO SAVE MONEY, AND THE MONEY THAT
WOULD GO TO HELP THE POOR WHO GENERALLY IN THIS CASE THEY VIEW
AS NOT VOTING FOR THEM, SO THEY ARE LIKE WHO CARES?
LET'S PUNISH
THEM.
AND SECONDLY DONALD TRUMP CAN TURN AROUND AND GO, SEE?
THE
INNER CITIES ARE SUCH A MESS.
IF YOU DON'T CLEAN UP ABANDONED
PROPERTIES, OF COURSE THEY WOULD BE A MESS, LUCKILY WE HAVE A
PROGRAM FOR THAT.
THAT'S THE ONE HE WANTS TO CUT.
THAT HE WILL
TURN AROUND AND GO, I TOLD YOU THEY WERE A MESS.
ARGH.
OKAY --
>>NOT WANT TO GIVE YOU CONTEXT THERE.
THE ENTIRETY OF THE HUD
BUDGET WOULD BE DOWN TO ABOUT $40 BILLION.
THE WASHINGTON POST
EXPLAINS --
>>THE DEFENSE BUDGET IS ALREADY $600 BILLION, BUT TRUMP WANTS TO
ADD ANOTHER $54 BILLION SO HE'S GOT TO GO AROUND DESTROYING THE
BUDGETS OF ALL THE OTHER AGENCIES SO THEY CAN PUT IN
ANOTHER 54 BILLION.
THE ENTIRE HUD BUDGET IS ONLY 40.
LET'S
TALK ABOUT THE CONSEQUENCES --
>>IT HASN'T HAPPENED YET, IT IS A PROPOSAL, BUT THAT'S WHAT THEY
WANT TO DO.
WHO WOULD IT AFFECT?
WELL --
>>THEY HIT THE NATIVE AMERICANS EVEN HARDER THAN THEY HIT THE
DISABLED, BECAUSE THEY ARE SO CLASSY.
SO IF YOU ARE AN ELDERLY
PERSON WHO THOUGHT TRUMP WOULD DELIVER FOR YOU, YOU VOTED FOR
HIM AND YOU ARE POOR AND YOU NEED THIS TO BE ABLE TO LIVE,
SAD DAY FOR YOU.
TURNS OUT THE JOKE'S ON YOU.
IF YOU'RE A
VETERAN WHO THOUGHT TRUMP WAS ON YOUR SIDE, NOPE, JOKE'S ON YOU.
IF YOU'RE A RICH VETERAN OR RICH ELDERLY, DON'T WORRY, HE'S GOT
YOUR BACK.
TAX CUTS ARE COMING YOUR WAY.
IF YOU'RE A GIANT
DEFENSE CONTRACTOR, YOU LOVE TRUMP.
THAT'S RIGHT, TAKEN FROM
AVERAGE AMERICANS AND GIVE ALL THE MONEY TO US IN
BILLION-DOLLAR CONTRACTS THAT ARE ACTUALLY THE MOST WASTEFUL
PART OF THE GOVERNMENT.
NOW, I WANT TO REMIND DONALD TRUMP OF
ANOTHER REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT WHO KNEW A THING OR TWO ABOUT
WINNING WARS, DWIGHT EISENHOWER.
HE SAID --
>>NOW OF COURSE THAT WAS A WARNING THAT DWIGHT EISENHOWER
LEFT BEHIND, DONALD TRUMP LOOKED AT THAT AND THOUGHT, THAT SOUND
PRETTY GOOD.
LET'S GO AHEAD AND DO THAT.
AND THAT'S WHAT HE'S IN THE MIDDLE OF DOING RIGHT NOW.