Trump’s preliminary budget proposal released

March 17, 2017 By Jim Muir Leave a Comment

WASHINGTON, DC (Kim Soffen and Denise Lu The Washington Post. Please Click to read the whole story here is an excerpt) On Thursday, the Trump administration released a preliminary 2018 budget proposal, which details many of the changes the president wants to make to the federal government’s spending. The proposal covers only discretionary, not mandatory, spending. To pay for an increase in defense spending, a down payment on the border wall and school voucher programs, among other things, funding was cut from the discretionary budgets of other executive departments and agencies. The Environmental Protection Agency, the State Department and the Agriculture Department took the hardest hits. The proposal also eliminates funding for these 19 agencies.

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