Government Budget Expert Rips Trump’s 2018 Budget To Shreds In SAVAGE Manner (VIDEO)

The Trump budget has been largely pushed to the media back burner lately because of the Comey/Russia story, but it’s no less of a disaster for President Donald Trump and his administration. The release of the budget blueprint was met with silence from Republicans, and as for the Democrats:

Enter Stan Collender. He has worked in finance his entire career. He’s worked for finance firms, global accounting firms, and for members of both the US House of Representatives and the Senate. So when it comes to governmental budgets, he’s the guy to talk to. Heck, his Twitter handle is @thebudgetguy. And in an interview with CNN, he didn’t hold back in totally ripping apart every aspect of the economic train wreck. When CNN editor Chris Cillizza asked how seriously this budget should be taken, Collender quipped:

“This is not serious at all; it’s just a Trump campaign document pretending to be a president’s budget. Submitting a budget that is likely … or even possibly … going to be adopted and implemented by Congress apparently wasn’t the administration’s primary goal. Communicating to the ultra-hard right wing of the Republican Party — the Trump base — seems to be its only real purpose.”

We already know how Democrats reacted to the budget outline, so Cillizza then asked how Republicans will react:

“Dead on arrival, dead before printing, dead before typesetting, etc. (Does anyone set type anymore?)”

“By the end of this week, Mulvaney will be the only Republican talking about this budget favorably. Other than the members of the House Freedom Caucus, House and Senate GOP’ers will either be criticizing or ignoring what Trump proposed.”

“I’m not sure everything Trump proposed will be acceptable to the Freedom Caucus either.”

The real piece de resistance in the interview, though, is the final exchange where Cillizza tells Collender to sum up the budget overall:

“‘Twilight Zone’ …. The Trump 2018 budget is based on such unreal scenarios of how the US economy will perform and what Congress will accept that the White House must be in an alternative universe where up is down, black is white and 2+2=7.”

I’d say that’s a pretty clear message to the Trump administration, don’t you think?Watch Bernie Sanders do something similar here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whoshQsCsY4

 

Featured image from NPR screengrab.