Earlier this month, the Trump White House unveiled its budget blueprint, which shifts federal spending priorities from domestic programs to national defense. The Office of Management and Budget proposed cuts of $54 billion to departments like Agriculture, Housing and Urban Development, and Commerce, coupled with big increases for the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security. The only domestic department to see any kind of increase would be Veterans Affairs.

The document was met with gnashing of teeth and rending of garments by liberals. Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times tweeted, “Reading through the Trump budget, I feel as the Romans must have felt in 456 a.d. as the barbarians conquered and ushered in the dark ages.”