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Rural Trump Voters Embrace The Sacrifices That Come With Support
President Trump has proposed spending cuts to programs that prop up rural areas that voted for him. While some policy experts bemoan that, there are rural voters who fully support those cuts.(Image...
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Trump Donates Salary To National Parks Even As He Tries To Cut Interior...
Critics cried foul, including the head of the Sierra Club who called Trump's move a "publicity stunt."(Image credit: Susan Walsh/AP)
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White House Proposes Deep Cuts To Safety Nets With 'Taxpayer First' Budget Plan
The White House has unveiled a proposal that aims to eliminate the federal deficit within a decade. It calls for significant cuts to Medicaid and food stamps, and it assumes robust economic...
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Medical Research, Health Care Face Deep Cuts In Trump Budget
The administration's proposed budget would cut billions out of health programs at the NIH, CDC and FDA, as well as Medicaid services for children, the elderly and disabled.(Image credit: Andrew Harnik/AP)
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Trump Budget Plan Relies On Optimistic Growth Assumptions, Analysts Say
President Trump's proposed budget released Tuesday rests on a key assumption: The economy will grow much faster than it has in recent years — and at a more robust pace than most analysts predict.(Image...
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At A Breaking Point: Stretched Secret Service Says It Needs Help To Protect...
The agency charged with protecting the president is seeking help from Congress to cover excess overtime costs. Officers put in a lot of extra hours, keeping up with Trump and his well-traveled...
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Trump Offers Spending Blueprint, But Congress Already Wrote The Check
President Trump has unveiled his spending priorities Monday, calling for more spending on the military, border security and the opioid crisis.(Image credit: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)
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Trump's Budget Proposal Swings At Drug Prices But May Land Only A Glancing Blow
The Trump administration rolled out a list of actions in its budget proposal to attack drug prices, but most of the measures dance around the edges of the problem.(Image credit: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg...
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Old Animal Specimens May Hold The Key To New Discoveries
A long-lost trove of preserved animal specimens recently turned up at a university in Georgia. Those old squirrels and muskrats could hold the answers to questions we haven't even thought to ask...
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White House Eyes Funding Sources For Border Wall In Case Trump Declares...
The Army Corps of Engineers has been asked to identify projects that could be canceled or delayed so that funds could be redirected to build a border wall, congressional and Pentagon sources say.(Image...
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Trump Seeks More Border Wall Funding In New Budget
President Trump's 2020 budget proposal, released on Monday, calls for $8.6 billion in new border wall funding, along with increased military spending and deep cuts to domestic programs.(Image credit:...
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This Economic Theory Could Be Used To Pay For The Green New Deal
Liberal Democrats have embraced an obscure brand of economics — "modern monetary theory" — to make the case for deficit-financed government programs like the Green New Deal for clean energy and...
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Some Big Health Care Policy Changes Are Hiding In The Federal Spending Package
The bill includes some policy surprises and increases in funding for several key public health priorities. And it cuts the few remaining taxes that were paying for Obamacare.(Image credit: Win...
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The U.S. Was Already Deep In Debt. This Year's Deficit Will Be 'Mind-Boggling'
The economic rescue package just passed by Congress will push this year's budget deficit above $3 trillion. Such huge levels of deficit spending used to set off alarm bells in Washington, but no...
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$3.1 Trillion: Pandemic Spending Drives The Federal Budget Deficit To A Record
The government shortfall for the fiscal year that just ended was more than triple that of 2019. The national debt of $21 trillion now exceeds the size of the U.S. economy.(Image credit: Patrick...
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