Trump says he will make schools safer

[Crepitus]

I don't know what his plan is, but will agree cutting funding isn't helping. That said, as noted above, the Feds pay very little to begin with. It's up to the States to make their schools safer.

Consider this last tragedy. The FBI is informed. Not a lawyer, but my understanding is that it's out of their jurisdiction and they passed the info to local authorities thus putting it on Broward County. While LWers are trying to make this Trump's fault, it really belongs in the lap of Governor Scott and all the elected officials of Broward County and Parkland.

He doesn't have a plan, he had a speech written for him.
And I'm not trying to make this his fault, but it is his responsibility to do something about it.

[Common Sense]

Trump is best at empty rhetoric.

[Common]

Obama was best at incessant talking and doing absolutely nothing. He had 8 full years to do something.

[MMC]

Trump is best at empty rhetoric.

Then there is whats known as Reality. That which the leftness has major difficulties with.





The president has delivered on some of his major campaign promises. Other pledges are still works in progress, while some commitments have been quietly discarded.


Mission accomplishedJudiciary
"We confirmed an incredible new Supreme Court justice and more circuit court judges in our first year than any administration in the history of our country," Trump said last week. "And we have many more coming." Thanks to Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, Trump had a large number of vacancies to fill on the federal bench as soon as he took office. He quickly tapped Neil Gorsuch for the Supreme Court seat vacated by the late Antonin Scalia. Trump has also moved aggressively to fill lower court vacancies with young, conservative judges who could be shaping federal jurisprudence for decades to come. Though some of his nominees have withdrawn under criticism of their qualifications.
Taxes
The $1.5 trillion tax bill signed in December was Trump's first major legislative accomplishment. And while many economists are skeptical the measure will spark the kind of economic growth Trump has promised, it will put more money in many Americans' pockets. "Hardworking American families will receive tremendous tax relief," Trump said last week. "We lowered our tax rates, nearly doubled the standard deduction, and doubled the child tax credit." The tax savings in the bill are heavily tilted toward the wealthy. But the bill does offer some of the savings for child- and elder care that Trump promised during the campaign.


Deregulation
The administration has moved quickly to roll back regulations adopted under previous presidents. Some of these moves have been challenged in court, but Trump and his Cabinet are chipping away at rules governing the environment, labor and finance. Just this week, a financial watchdog agency announced that it plans to reconsider an Obama-era rule governing payday lenders.
Energy
During the campaign, Trump promised to lift restrictions on domestic energy production including oil, natural gas and coal. The administration has worked to open more land and offshore waters to drilling, including the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska.

Trans-Pacific Partnership
In one of his first acts as president, Trump formally withdrew the United States from a 12-nation trade deal negotiated under former President Barack Obama. That made good on a pledge Trump made during the campaign, although his rival Hillary Clinton also opposed the trade deal and Congress was unlikely to ratify the agreement in any case. "The president kept a key promise," said Scott Paul, president of the Alliance for American Manufacturing. "I would add it was one of the easiest things for him to do." Critics argue that withdrawal has weakened America's standing in the fast-growing Asia-Pacific region and handed a windfall to China.
Hiring Freeze
Trump delivered on his promise to temporarily freeze federal hiring outside of the military, although that freeze has since been lifted. The federal government had 16,000 fewer employees in December than it did a year ago, a drop of less than 1 percent......snip~

https://www.npr.org/2018/01/18/57869...lete-1-year-in

[Safety]

And Trump cutting millions from these programs is going to make schools safer how?

I'm all ears!

Follow the modus operandi, it's the same when the GOP cut security funds for the embassy, then screamed when Benghazi happened. Wash, rinse, repeat....

[MMC]

He doesn't have a plan, he had a speech written for him.
And I'm not trying to make this his fault, but it is his responsibility to do something about it.

He is doing something about it.....talking to Governors and State AGs. Is doing something. Un like the Democrats who are doing nothing. But flapping their anti Trump pieholes.

[Max Rockatansky]

He is doing something about it.....talking to Governors and State AGs. Is doing something. Un like the Democrats who are doing nothing. But flapping their anti Trump pieholes.

Agreed. I'm not a Trump fan, but I fail to see what a President Hillary or Obama would do different. Declare martial law and send the US Army to guard all the schools, arrest people without warrants?

[MisterVeritis]

He doesn't have a plan, he had a speech written for him.
And I'm not trying to make this his fault, but it is his responsibility to do something about it.

The federal government has no responsibility for local school safety.

[Dangermouse]

The part you didn't figure out.....the Fed can help. But the main responsibility is on the States. Maybe the leftness should drop the BS about a school being a Gun Free Safe Zone.

So Trump is bloviating on the back of other peoples' money. There's a shocker!

[MisterVeritis]

Not so much.
Trump budget would cut millions in school safety funds: report
So how does that work?

I looked at the article. It is feel good wasted money. Cut it. The Federal government has no responsibility for local school safety.