00:00It's Christina Coleman with Essence.com and this is The Overexplainer.
00:04This week, the Trump administration released a questionable budget.
00:08It proposes an increase in military defense at the cost of some necessary programs to
00:12keep the same Americans he claims to protect, fed, clothed, and educated.
00:17People like coal miners in West Virginia, low-income families, and other great Americans
00:22who supported him.
00:26So essentially what she's saying is that Trump doesn't care about you.
00:29You wasted your vote.
00:31Good job, losers.
00:32Oh, by the way, that's my shade translator, Sidney Scott.
00:37Shout out to Key & Peele.
00:39Not only does Trump propose we slash jobs in places like the Labor Department and EPA.
00:44He wants to leave us jobless and unable to breathe?
00:48Like come on, my man, what?
00:51And issuing cuts in places like the Department of Health and Human Services and Department
00:56of Housing.
00:57Sick and homeless?
00:58Is this what you want to do?
00:59Sick and homeless?
01:00Gonna be out in the streets, dying.
01:02Dead in the streets.
01:05He's eliminating programs in the Department of Education and altogether doing away with
01:09agencies and programs like the United States Institute of Peace, the Minority Business Development
01:15Agency, and get this, Meals on Wheels.
01:19And when asked by reporters how the Trump administration could be so morally bankrupt as to disrupt and
01:34eliminate a program that feeds the seniors and provides them with safety checks, the
01:38budget director replied with, can we ask the taxpayer to pay for this?
01:42Saying the move was compassionate on taxpayers' pockets.
01:45We actually can ask them to pay for this.
01:48Let me over explain this to anyone who thinks Meals on Wheels is just some nice sounding program
01:53that doesn't need funding.
01:54The program assists up to 500,000 veterans per year.
01:58It aids more than 2.4 million people in this country.
02:01And most of the programs that stand to be affected by these cuts are put in place to benefit the
02:06same people Trump's administration touts as the Americans he wants to help.
02:11Who are you helping?
02:13Not helping me.
02:14Not helping anybody else.
02:15Helping your own damn self.
02:16Selfish.
02:17Selfish.
02:18And the very bottom line, anyone who takes food and services away from babies and the elderly
02:25are straight up monsters.
02:27Little babies and little old ass ladies.
02:30Come on.
02:31My God.
02:32People.
02:33So, until next time.
02:41Wait.
02:42I'll keep you in mind.
02:50I'll keep going in first.
02:59Actually, I'm going to leave a poll round.
03:03I'll get you inside the poll.
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