2018 budget Archives

Bishop: Budget ‘moral document’; House bill puts poor in ‘real jeopardy’

“The USCCB is monitoring the budget and appropriations process in Congress very carefully, and is analyzing the proposed House budget resolution in more detail,” said Bishop Frank J. Dewane, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development.

Analysis: Congregations can’t make up for proposed federal budget cuts

A study by Bread for the World, a nonpartisan Christian anti-hunger group, found that the budget cuts proposed by President Donald Trump for the year 2018 would force every religious congregation in the U.S. to raise an additional $714,000 every year for the next 10 years.

Catholic leaders blast Trump’s budget proposals

A budget proposal by President Donald Trump last Tuesday faces stiff opposition, including a number of Catholic leaders in the United States. Bishop Frank Dewane of Venice, Florida, called its mix of cuts in support for the poor and increases in defense spending ‘profoundly troubling,’ while Sister Donna Markham of Catholic Charities termed it ‘disastrous, albeit cruel.’

Bishops tell lawmakers to focus on poor in 2018 budget
- Catholic News Service, Church in the US
- May 21, 2017
U.S. bishops have called on lawmakers to decrease military spending and do more to help the poor in the 2018 federal budget. “When the impact of other potential legislative proposals, including health care and tax policies, are taken into account, the prospects for vulnerable people become even bleaker,” the bishops said in a May 19 letter to Congress.
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At U.S. Capitol, Christians protest budget cuts
- Church in the US, Religion News Service
- April 1, 2017
Rep. Joe Kennedy, a Democrat from Massachusetts and the only lawmaker to attend the event, told the ecumenical gathering of Christian leaders, “In times of division and discourse in our government, our faith steadies us. It is our connective thread, and a common compass.”
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School vouchers gain support, see smoother path ahead
- Catholic News Service, Church in the US
- March 20, 2017
Supporters of school voucher programs are looking forward to action on the issue given the Trump administration’s focus on it. Trump’s budget doesn’t explain how it will work out, but his education secretary says she has a plan.
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