Let’s not kid ourselves. The budget that’s going to be announced tomorrow was prepared by OMB Director Mick Mulvaney and his staff with little if any input from the President.

It’s a real horror show for the social safety net Americans have grown accustomed to, but more than that it’s built on lies. Follow this Twitter thread:

Click it to read it in its entirety. Here’s Tweet #11:

Putting $5.5T in tax cuts for wealthy ppl & corps alongside ~$4T in cuts to progs serving low & middle-income people wld not be popular.

So what did they do? They left the $5.5 trillion cut out of the document!

Despite all the lies we’ve heard from the Republican party and its promoters at Fox News and elsewhere over the years, that’s unbelievable.