"The indications are strong this budget will feature Robin-Hood-in-reverse policies in an unprecedented scale," said Robert Greenstein, president of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a left-leaning think tank.
Conservatives were using the Trump administration's effort to rein in federal overreach to reverse policies designed to protect against what the Obama administration had seen as discriminatory practices.
You have to change the mission, reset the priorities, put new requirements into the budgeting system and reverse policies in the justice arena that grow poverty, lousy schools, unemployment, low wages and incarceration.
By empowering an enforcement authority, the action will reverse policies put in place under President Barack Obama, and resurrect and expand "conscience protections" introduced under President George W. Bush.
And many states were engaging in reverse stimulus policies, slashing spending and increasing taxes.
Certainly, Trump's recent appointments of Flynn as national security adviser and retired Marine General James Mattis as secretary of defense suggest that his love for the Pentagon and for tough-guy generals may override any desire to upset the military apple cart in Asia and reverse policy developments of the last three decades hurriedly being nailed in place at this very moment.
Right now we are in effect following the reverse policy: slashing domestic spending in the face of an economic slump.
If the Federal Reserve does not act to reverse policy in the face of a continued stock market decline, President Trump may decide to take actions to re-liquify the financial system, possibly in the form of a dollar devaluation.
In reversing such policies, Mr. Bush has run the political risk of cementing an image of his administration as one that favors business at the expense of consumers.
A fitting next step for the new administration in reversing Bush policies based in fictional science would be for the FDA, under Dr. Hamburg's leadership, to take a fresh look at the agency's restrictive over-the-counter policy on the emergency contraceptive Plan B to ensure that the policy is based on medical evidence, not ideology.
