President Donald Trump is a wildcard. After watching the most recent Nerdwriter1 video, which you could see here:
I began to research more about the budget cuts and policies President Trump says he will enact. Considering how during the election, the only thing we learned about him was that he was great, we didn't learn an awful lot about his policies. So when President Trump starts to sign executive orders and begins the next meme revolution (@TrumpDraws), people start to freak out because they never knew what he wanted to do in the first place.
Sure, we could check his Politiplatform, but who knew that "defeat the ideology of radical Islamic terrorism just as we won the Cold War," "establish a Commission on Radical Islam," "establish new screening procedures and enforce our immigration laws to keep terrorists out of the United States," and "suspend, on a temporary basis, immigration from some of the most dangerous and volatile regions of the world that have a history of exporting terrorism" would mean not allowing United States citizens and Green Card holders to come back to the place they call home? Of course this changed, as US citizens and Green Card holders would be "assessed" but would be allowed to come in.
Trump's new budget cuts (highlighted in the Nerdwriter1 video) propose cutting the spending on seventeen federal programs and agencies that aim at "preserving and supporting the environment, civil rights protections, the arts, minority-owned businesses, and public broadcasting." This includes the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (no more Elmo and Big Bird!), National Endowment for the Arts, UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Office of Electricity Deliverability and Energy Reliability, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, and more. These companies end up costing the average American $22.36 a year. That's less than a Netflix or a Spotify Subscription!
If you want to see how this breaks down, check out this Time article.
But now that we know how President Trump's budget cuts are going to affect us, let's learn about the other policies that President Trump is proposing. All in all, there's one thing that we have to take away from this, and that is that we have to remain knowledgeable about the politics that are occurring. Sure, we all want to enjoy and watch the Grammys (not really), but if we don't pay attention to what's happening to our government, it can change right before our eyes. So continue to protest, and make sure to call your Senate representative, your House representative, your mayor and your governor, and tell them that you don't like what's happening. If we don't tell them what we want, then they can't help us at all.
Communication is key for our government to work.
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Mayor Bill de Blasio: (212) 504-4115
