Trump’s budget dead on arrival in the House, says Democratic appropriator

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The top Democratic appropriator on Monday denounced President Trump’s fiscal year 2020 budget for slashing domestic spending and calling for $8.6 billion in border wall funding, and said it had no chance of passing.

“President Trump has somehow managed to produce a budget request even more untethered from reality than his past two,” said House Appropriations Committee Chair Nita Lowey, D-N.Y. “This irresponsible proposal slashes investments in America’s working families to unworkable budget cap levels, resulting in cuts of 9 percent to programs like early childhood education, job training, law enforcement, safe drinking water, and scientific and medical research.”

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