New York Magazine, February 27, 2017: President Trump’s Gold-Plated Budget Plan

“More fundamentally, Trump won’t be able to offset the cost of his opulent ambitions on taxes and the security state by taking an axe to (non-defense) discretionary spending. Big cuts to the EPA and federal anti-poverty programs could certainly hurt a lot of people. But they wouldn’t make a significant dent in the longterm debt. (Lower tax-rates and higher annual military spending, by contrast, would).”