First, there are several similarities and differences in former President Barack Obamas budget message. First, his budget in 2015 focused on various factors such as, the working families, middle class families, Americas youngest learners, college students, the workforce, returning hero’s (military personal), businesses owners, security threats, infectious disease, modernizing alliances, opening new markets, climate change, the management agenda, immigration reform, and affordable health insurance. The economic situation during 2015 supported his reasoning to focus on these major components. In his message, he described the current state of the economy as growing rapidly. Jobs have been created at the fastest pace since 1999, and in 58 months …show more content…
More of our people are insured than ever before. When determining what to include in the budget plan Obama had to take into consideration what kind of economy we want to be for the future. The economic forecast he proposed is will we commit ourselves to an economy that generates rising incomes and chances for everyone who makes the effort. Three major budget choices that Obama made in 2015 are, infectious disease, immigration reform, and climate change. The reasons why Obama chose this budget is it shows what we can do if we invest in America’s future and commit ourselves to an economy that rewards hard work, generates rising incomes, and allows everyone to share in the prosperity of a growing America. Ultimately, the budget lays out a strategy to strengthen our middle class, and help America’s hard-working families get ahead in a time of relentless economic and technological …show more content…
His budgets goal it to lay a foundation of American Greatness allow more people to fulfill their dreams. First, it is important to recognize the economic difference between our current economic state and 2013 and 2015. Our current economic state is stable and improving. The U.S. has a higher employment rate now, than during the Obama administration. In the budget message, Trump describes that our economy has a lack of activity, growth, or development, and he will strive to create faster economic growth based on eight policies and reforms. Some of the most important budget choices are first, health care. Trump plans to reform the health care plan that Obama implemented in his previous budgets. Trump discussed that he planned to create a more competitive reform. Next, he plans to reform immigration, focus on education reform, and American Energy Development. In contrast from Obamas budget message, Trump does not discuss climate change but rather describes his goal of development of reducing the price of electricity and transportation fuels. Furthermore, as Trump is a new president he must strategize to appeal to the public in hopes of re-election. In the beginning, he forecast the nation nine years in the future by releasing the barriers holding back economic growth and allow more people to fulfill their dreams. He plans to, drive the economy to increase income, create more job