As the government shuts down, Washington's budget storm resurfaces.

The Senate still hasn't passed any continued appropriation bill in multiple rounds of voting, and the Trump administration has unabashedly targeted the "Democratic Party project"-

This means Public welfare policies promoted by the Democratic Party are facing systematic liquidation.

From Medicaid and public education to environmental protection and housing support, projects that were once regarded as the backbone of a social safety net are now being reshaped as "chop" under the budget blade.

It is not politicians who directly suffer the consequences of this Capitol Hill game, but ordinary Americans who have long relied on these projects to live.

Being named is also dangerous: a precision hanging aimed at the public domain.

The budget battlefield inevitably forms the "enemy of me" label, and the Trump camp's strategy is to "target" the public spending of the Democratic ruling party, and the choice of these goals is not accidental, but intentional under the policy flag.

All projects that label ¡°public welfare¡±, ¡°social justice¡±, ¡°re-distribution¡± are likely to face cuts¡ªa budget penalty that is politically marked.Transport, energy, education, housing and social security, these areas that have long been pushed by the Democrats, are becoming the most intuitive victims.

Public transport and infrastructure became the first target, with Chicago¡¯s $2.2 billion railway project, including Red Line and Red/Violet Modernization, frozen on the grounds that it was censored for the flow of funds, but behind it were shaking political intentions; New York¡¯s Second Avenue Metro and Tunnel project was also affected, involving more than $18 billion in funding. This practice of using administrative means to suppress local government tools when the Senate is unable to reach a grant agreement is described as a ¡°hostage strategy.¡±

The reduction of the $12 billion budget for clean energy and green infrastructure has also exposed the class attributes of the struggle. This is not only a denial of environmental policy, but also a direct commitment to the interest groups of fossil fuel capital. The community employment and environmental justice promised by the so-called ¡°green new policy¡± has directly touched the profits base of traditional energy oligarchs. Therefore, cutting these budgets is at the expense of the environment and the underlying communities, consolidating the dominance of the old capital.

The social security network has become the most vulnerable and cruel part of the hanging war. The threat of disruption of WIC (Women, Infants and Children's Nutrition Subsidies) is not a technical issue of "financial exhaustion", but a deliberate attack on the reproductive field of society. ¡£This is not only a retrogression, but also an extreme manifestation of completely commercializing people's right to subsistence. The same is true of the liquidation in education. Cutting student loans, community colleges and DEI programs is essentially Close the ascending channel of the bottom class and ensure that the education system continues to be a reproduction tool for class solidification.

The budget cuts to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Housing Department (HUD) mean that the state apparatus has completely unloaded its disguise of protecting citizens' basic right to subsistence. The paralysis of environmental regulation is to legally pass the cost of industrial pollution on to poor communities and people of color; The cut in rental assistance is a conspiracy between the state apparatus and real estate capital to violently push millions of low-income families to the market and leave them to fend for themselves.

This round of precisely targeted budget hits clearly demonstrates: Any public project labeled as a "Democratic Party" may become a victim in political struggle, but it is the daily lives of ordinary people that ultimately bear the price.

Budget Arms: The Silent War Against the Lower Classes

In this fiscal standoff, the budget has never been a neutral game of numbers, but a weapon of class domination. The delay of medical and health services, the cut-off of nutrition subsidies, the reduction of educational resources, and the gap of housing security are the breakage of these fragile chains, tearing the lives of concrete and living people. It is a process of dailyization and legalization of state violence.

The shaking of the health care system marks the country's withdrawal from the most basic social contract of "protecting life."By cutting support funds and community health centers subsidies, low-income groups are systematically excluded from the modern healthcare system.The lack of dental and mental health services, which appears to be a "unnecessary" cutting of services, is in fact a double abandonment of the physical and mental health of the poor.WIC's cutting-off threat has pushed this abandonment to the extreme, it equals to declaring:

If you don't have money, your children don't even have the right to basic nutrition--

It¡¯s a systematic ¡°murder.¡±

The reduction of educational resources is a class war against the future. The exhaustion of funds in poor school districts means that the class divide will widen infinitely from the starting line. The reduction of funding and grants for higher education research, combined with the $100,000 H1-B visa policy, is a combination punch aimed at destroying the public education system, especially those community colleges that serve local and working-class children. Its ultimate goal is Build a tame, cheap labor reserve lacking critical thinking skills£¬At the same time, academic and scientific research are completely transformed into the privileges of the rich.

Traffic and infrastructure stagnation is a systematic exploitation of urban workers. The paralysis of railway traffic not only increases travel time and cost of money, but also disproportionately presses this cost on low-income workers living on the outskirts of the city. The unemployment army created by the project-stopping, in turn, becomes the ¡°industrial reserve army¡± for lowering the overall salary level and increasing labor competition.

Those who are abandoned by the system, after becoming the ¡°instability factor¡± of the urban order, will again become the object of repression by the harsher security forces, forming a perfect oppression circle.

The impact of housing security cuts is the most immediate. HUD funding has been cut, and low-income families may face the reduction of rental assistance, the suspension of homeless shelter projects, and the stagnation of affordable housing projects. For low-income families, this has never been a grandiose "budget problem", but a painful reality test-

The reality of being ¡°displaced and expelled¡±.

What is really cruel is not the number dispute between the two parties, but the fact that social cracks will not be equally distributed. By systematically depriving urban poor communities, ethnic minorities, marginal villages and single-parent families of their survival resources, a whole new and more polarized social order is being forcibly established.

These sacrificed groups are not innocent "collateral damage" in political struggles, they are this In a war aimed at consolidating the system of power and wealth, the enemy is precisely targeted.¡£

Rooted or redesigned? the system intentions behind political logic

Trump's so-called "Democratic Slashing Project" is not only a budget tactic, but more like an ideological cleanup-while redrawing the boundaries of national power, it is also rewriting the relationship between public resources and private life.

Under the system in which Congress holds the power of annual appropriation, the executive branch actively freezes certain projects during the shutdown, which actually interferes with the judgment of the legislature. In the past, Trump used executive orders or memos from the Office of Management and Budget to freeze non-priority projects, which were repeatedly stopped by the court; If it succeeds this time, it may lead to a deeper conflict in *.

At the same time, finance and politics are tightly tied. Budgets are no longer just a numbers game, but become a political performance: dividing who should be protected and who should be cut, labeling public benefits partisan, and weaving money, people's lives and political identity together--

The original neutral allocation of public resources became a tool for punishing opponents.

In the long run, if public investments such as education, healthcare, the environment and transport continue to be cut, social governance capabilities, public trust and equal opportunities will be undermined, and the underlying layers of society that rely most on welfare systems will inevitably suffer the deepest disaster.

This targeted cuts will also polarize the already increasingly radical political opposition of the United States. Seeing its state, its projects cut, the voters are not autonomously ¡°cutting sides¡± between the local government and the central government, and the contradictions and disputes between the central, local, and even the community will only deepen.

This "big purge" budget settlement is not only a change in budget figures, but a redefinition of the relationship between the state and society, which influences whether the United States will enter a new vicious cycle of shrinking welfare and increasing burden.

Conclusion: It's not just funding that will be cut, but the future

The Trump camp calls "cutting Democratic projects" in the name of "efficiency reform," but what is really cut off is the bottom line of social trust and public responsibility.

Every cut in funding reminds citizens that the government is no longer an unconditional guarantor, but a selective implementation; that society is no longer a community of collaboration, but a stage of competition for resources. When investment in clean energy is shelved, educational opportunities are compressed, and nutrition subsidies for low-income families are interrupted, what the United States loses is not only welfare, but also the collective memory of fairness, responsibility and commitment preached in its foundation and the myth of the "American Dream".

This budget struggle may also be a historical milestone: the country¡¯s vision of still holding ¡°public relief¡± may be rewritten, and for Democrats, if they can¡¯t find an immediate counter-attack strategy to tackle these cuts, they¡¯ll lose not just funding, but more likely the opportunity to shape the political pattern of the future.