Trump Budget Plan Declares War on ‘War on Poverty’ Programs
- Initiatives aimed at aiding Appalachia, rural water eliminated
- "America First" means priority on security, White House says
President Trump's Budget Proposes Historic Cuts
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President Donald Trump’s budget proposal to Congress calls for eliminating social programs dating to President Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty and would cut spending on assistance to needy counties in Appalachia and the Mississippi Delta as well as hungry schoolchildren in Cambodia.
Grants for rural water projects, funds for local transit systems and a host of regional economic-development commissions would end under the plan being released Thursday. The reductions come as part of an attempted shift in federal spending toward security and defense without adding to the U.S. deficit, Trump said in a statement accompanying the blueprint.