Lincoln Square - We Thought We Were Better than This. We're Not. [View all]

Edwin Eisendrath

Early Thursday morning, the House agreed to bring Donald Trump’s budget to the floor after the Senate passed its version earlier this week. The bill creates a police state, setting aside $45 billion for construction of internal prison camps like the one Mr. Trump visited in Florida to celebrate the bill’s passage. The budget invests in these camps while it cuts funding for food, medicine, and education and gives money to the wealthiest amongst us. These spending priorities reflect the worst of what we are.

This budget is compassion’s repudiation. It rewards the powerful and punishes the weak, the poor, the sick, the stranger. I swear it reflects no values of mine, but a good portion of our populace thinks it is beautiful.

How broken is America’s moral compass that is should point in such a direction!

And the part Trump and Vance are proudest of is the money they got for building concentration camps as part of their effort to deport millions.

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