On March 16, the Trump administration’s first budget proposal landed, and all hell broke loose.
Inboxes flooded with prophecies of fire and brimstone, of decimation, of Big Bird blindfolded before the firing squad while Elmo took his final smoke in preparation.
The document, known as “the skinny” budget, calls for vast cuts to domestic discretionary spending, first slicing $18 billion from domestic programs immediately in 2017, and then taking the fiscal chainsaw to them in 2018 with the removal of $54 billion. ...