A response to Trump’s budget

The Appalachian Online President Donald Trump finally figured out who was going to pay for his wall, and, as expected, it isn’t Mexico. It’s the American people.
But that shouldn’t have surprised anyone, especially with his track record of keeping his other campaign promises.
Everyone should have seen it coming after his Jan. 11 press conference, where he said that Mexico “in some form, and there are many different forms, will reimburse us, and they will reimburse us for the cost of the wall.”
It should have been explicitly clear that Mexico wasn’t paying when Mexican President Enrique Peña said, “It is evident that we have some differences with the new government of the United States, like to the topic of the wall, that Mexico of course will not pay.”
But now it’s been made absolutely clear that is the American people who are paying for the wall with his proposed budget plan released Thursday.
According to the plan, Trump wishes to “invest” $2.6 billion in “high-priority tactical infrastructure and border security technology, including funding to plan, design and construct a physical wall along the southern border.”
So there it is, 2.6 billion taxpayer dollars are going into building a wall that, according to the Pew Research Center, only 35 percent of Americans are in favor of.
With the question of who is paying sorted out, attention must be turned to how Trump will pay for his wall.
He’d pay for his wall by making $54 billion worth of cuts to parts of the federal government and a variety of government programs.
While the wall accounts for roughly five percent of the cuts, where would the rest of the money go?
To defense funding of course, specifically to the Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Defense.
In the budget plan, Trump ...


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