Why did it take so long for President Trump to seek cuts to foreign aid and public broadcasting?

Is Bernie Sanders justified in calling Trump's deployment of the national guard to Los Angeles an attack on "universities that teach courses that he doesn't like"?
What danger do you think Cory Booker is referring to when he says: "We are now at a point where we have a president who sat back and did nothing as people stormed our Capitol, viciously beat police?"