cuts in welfare and army spending enhance. Tensions with media and college | EUROtoday

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Cento hundred days from his return to the White House, Donald Trump persevered in his venture of institutional and cultural transformation of the United States. He broadcasts cuts in welfare to extend army spending, cancels the loans to the nation’s important tv broadcasters, denounces the judges that he wished to hinder him within the combat in opposition to immigration, broadcasts that he needs to take away the tax exemption from the University of Harvard and irrigate the massive tech magnates.

Cuts for 163 billion {dollars} to public providers and enhance in army spending

The funds proposal for 2026, introduced yesterday 1 May, offers for a 22.6% reduce to non -defensive expenditure. There can be 163 billion {dollars} much less meant for environmental applications, well being, public building, renewable energies, training and worldwide cooperation. Instead, protection funds are rising. Trump will ask Congress for a rise in army spending. According to Bloomberg, funding for nationwide safety would enhance to $ 1,010 billion, a rise of 13% in comparison with 892.3 billion of the earlier 12 months.

Attack on public media and revocation of the tax exemption in Harvard

On the identical day, Trump signed an govt order to dam funding to the 2 important public tv networks, financed by Congress, NPR and PBS.

In truth, the US President claims that the media protection of the 2 broadcasters is the expression of the unconventional left. On his social media, Truth, Trump has not too long ago attacked public tv networks, writing all the things in capital letters: “Republicans have to remove the funding and disappearance completely from NPR and PBS, the ‘monsters’ of the radical left that have thus injured our country!”

Just a few hours in the past he as an alternative introduced, all the time in a put up on his social community, to “stay to revoke the status of tax exemption in Harvard” as a result of “this is what they deserve”. The announcement follows a protracted interval of tensions between the American president and the distinguished college. The Trump administration had frozen over 2.2 billion {dollars} in federal subsidies meant for Harvard, after the college had refused to stick to the request to restrict scholar activism, specifically that linked to the Israeli-Palestinian battle, and the revision of variety applications.