To keep things in perspective that things are not so terrible
- “EPA retained its current funding level of $8.1 billion, while the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, which Trump had vowed to chop by a staggering 70 percent, actually saw a funding boost of 12.5 percent. The riders, which would have blocked implementation of the Interior Department’s methane venting and flaring rule, among other things, were mostly dropped. And many of the clean-energy policies pushed by President Obama in his 2009 stimulus bill were generously funded, like TIGER, a grant program for transportation projects, and ARPA-E, an energy research agency.”
- National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities got $3M more each than last year, and PBS kept its budget. Trump wanted to kill them all.
- Center for Disease Control and NIH got their budgets increased, with the latter’s 8.8% increase the biggest one in 15 years! Trump wanted to cut them all. And CDC even got funding to research gun safety.
- NASA kept its Earth science programs, expanded its science missions, and kept WFIRST !
- No funding for trump’s wall (Trump now wants Pentagon to pay for it – most of what Pentagon gets is a waste, but at least the wall will just sit there and won’t kill anyone, so it’s fine by me )