President Trump’s 2021 budget landed with a thud on Capitol Hill this week. It showers more tax cuts on big corporations and the wealthy while slashing investments in working families, Medicare, affordable health care, and environmental protection. The Trump budget would hurt students, National Institutes of Health (NIH), affordable housing, innovative clean energy research, and cut grant initiatives that previously supported USF, Tampa Bay Wave, the City of Tampa and other local partners. While the budget is “DOA,” it reveals the administration’s failure to address aging infrastructure, skyrocketing health care costs and needed innovation in a competitive world.
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