Aaaaaand Dems are Freaking Out About Trump’s Alleged Budget Cuts

“This is absolutely nuts in terms of the future of energy in this country,” Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) told Perry.

“You’re going to have to really do some hard pushing back on this because, assuming this is true, I find it’s almost self-parody to be cutting energy research at this moment in time.”

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Democrats implored Perry to push Trump away from those cuts.

“It’s hard to see how we can pursue an all-of-the-above strategy if so much of the departments all of the above capabilities are eliminated,” Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) said. “We’re counting on you to educate the incoming president.”

Sen. Debbie Stabenow said she was “concerned” by the proposed cuts, saying it would gut federal energy research and hurt the U.S. economy.

“We’re talking about massive cuts in the kinds of things that you have advocated for — you supported in your role as governor — that are critical to the future of the economy, and lowering emissions, and creating more efficiencies,” she said.

“We’re going to do all of that, it needs to really be the kinds of things that you’ve been talking about this morning. And yet, we just have a new statement that we’re talking about massive cuts in the Energy Department.”

Perry tried to dampen Democrat’s concerns, first saying of the report that, “just because it’s on the internet, it’s not true.”

Whatever, Governor Perry. In the era of Trump we are straight back to the George W. Bush days. No internet exaggeration is too far.

And of course they’re also freaking out about their precious — no, not Hillary Clinton — the National Endowment for the Arts is on the chopping block.

GASP! The most unnecessary national waste.

Fiscal conservatives can cross their fingers and hope against hope right now that these twits have to go to the private sector to fund their projects:

Advocates for the arts and public broadcasting are sounding the alarm over possible cuts to federal funding that one lawmaker said could be a sign of a cultural dark age under President-elect Donald Trump.