US President Donald Trump has said that the federal government's financial resources should be directed not to healthcare and kindergartens, but to strengthening the state defense system. In his opinion, state leaders should deal with such social programs. This was reported by CNN on April 2.
Trump expressed these views on April 1 during a closed meeting organized on the occasion of the Easter holiday. The video recording of his words was first posted on the official White House YouTube channel, then removed, but a journalist from Business Insider saved it.
At the meeting, the president recalled a conversation with Russell Vote, the head of the Office of Management and Budget, and stressed that the issue of daycare should not be allocated and that it should be the responsibility of the states: “We are a big country, there are 50 states, and others should be responsible for this.” Then he added: “We are at war. We cannot deal with daycare.”
According to Trump, states can raise taxes to finance daycare and health care programs. “There is no way at the federal level, we have to deal with one thing: military defense. We have to protect the nation,” he said.
As White House press secretary Caroline Leavitt reported on April 2, Trump also spoke in his speech about “the importance of ending fraud and cutting off billions of dollars in programs that Democratic elected officials have allowed.”
CNN noted that Trump's comments were largely about who should pay for what, but came hours before he addressed the nation about the war with Iran. In his address, he said the US was close to victory, but did not say when the war would end.
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