AP Report on Trump Budget is Chillling

It's a bit premature to attack a budget that has yet to be unveiled. But if an Associated Press report on the spending plan is just partially accurate, The Donald is heading for a disaster that's even worse than his failed bill to repeal and replace Obamacare. It proposes $18 billion in cuts to pay for a wall that he said Mexico would fund. Amazingly, it even includes $500 million in cuts for infrastructure grants, something he had promised to increase. Here they are unofficially, at a glance.

• $1.1 billion from the Agriculture Department, including $363 million from food aid to poor nations.
• $1.2 billion from the departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, including $350 million from National Science Foundation grants and $210 million to help states keep immigrants in the country illegally in prison.
• $1.8 billion from energy and water accounts, including $516 million from energy efficiency and renewable energy.
• $714 million from the Interior Department, including $51 million from rural western school districts.
• $7.3 billion from the Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education departments, including $1.3 billion from Pell Grants, $1.2 billion in grants to reduce class sizes, and $1.2 billion from NIH.
• $2.9 billion from foreign aid, including $562 million from economic development assistance, $200 million in military aid to "high income" countries, and $547 million from multilateral development banks.
• $2.7 billion from transportation, housing and development, including $1.5 billion from flexible community development funds, $499 million from transportation projects, and $447 million from transit projects. 

Americorps will be eliminated. Mental health programs reduced. Poor peopleneed no help topay heating bills. They can run laps. Pell grants have gone to hell  Who needs college? Politico has a copy of what are being called the FY2017 options here. In the meantime, we are headed to another government shutdown.