re: Trump proposes the most conservative budget ever presented by a chief executive.

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Will Trump's budget defund the organization that brought us Title IX?

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Apparently not. They cut some parts, but also added 1.4 billion for school choice.

Of course, I thought the plan was to federal government out of education, and school choice was the solution. Yet, now that same solution is where they signicantly increased the government involvement?

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A strong military is a conservative position.

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funny when "conservatives" are favoring the expansion of government

the military is bureaucracy at it's finest

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I agree. I wonder if Obama had some massive one-time event in his first budget year that might have driven up his first budget. Nah, that could never have happened.

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Exactly. So knowing that, highlighting the decreasing deficit is not very useful in and of itself.

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never fought a war

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someone failed history class

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Useful in pointing out that he wasn't some uberspend liberal who just wanted to waste more money every year

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Not nearly as useful as you think

Depending on whether you credit 2009 to Bush, Obama's first year was relative to a baseline which included either ARRA or TARP, which came at the tail end of Bush's already steep-climbing spending. Those were HUGE baseline jumps, and Obama didn't decline much from that for a few years. He remained way above Bush's (already too steep) trend, and we're only now getting back to that

And I said spending, not deficits. Receipts have soared since 2009

you mean debt

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Conservative Trump bitches. He is setting the bar for what the role of the federal government should be. Cutting the wasteful bloated government agencies. Time to tighten your belt beltway boys. Leftists: "The lives of our children will be devastated without Sesame Street."

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I'm sorry, but a deficit neutral budget that also reduces the GDP by cutting people with jobs at the expense of Sesame Street is horse shite.

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Depending on whether you credit 2009 to Bush, Obama's first year was relative to a baseline which included either ARRA or TARP, which came at the tail end of Bush's already steep-climbing spending. Those were HUGE baseline jumps, and Obama didn't decline much from that for a few years. He remained way above Bush's (already too steep) trend, and we're only now getting back to that

And I said spending, not deficits. Receipts have soared since 2009

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Oh, and for good measure, the design required to ram Obama's pet ACA through locked in increased future deficits. It also locked in forced increased state outlays on Medicaid, all else equal, until it became optional for states thanks to SCOTUS.

==> binge-spender

look at the downvotes from the trolls.. sad they love big govt