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President Donald Trump is proposing a $4 trillion-plus budget for next year that projects a $1 trillion or so federal deficit and - unlike the plan he released last year - never comes close to promising a balanced federal ledger even after 10 years. And that's before last week's $300 billion budget pact is added this year and next, showering both the Pentagon and domestic agencies with big increases.
President Donald Trump is proposing a $4 trillion-plus budget for next year that projects a $1 trillion or so federal deficit and - unlike the plan he released last year - never comes close to promising a balanced federal ledger even after 10 years. And that's before last week's $300 billion budget pact is added this year and next, showering both the Pentagon and domestic agencies with big increases.
President Donald Trump's budget director said the budget that the administration will send to Congress today will seek to move some of the billions of dollars in extra spending that Congress approved last week to areas that will reflect the president's priorities. The original plan was for Trump's new budget to slash domestic agencies even further than last year's proposal, but instead it will land in Congress three days after he signed a two-year budget agreement that wholly rewrites both plans.
In a twist on Washington's truism about presidential budgets being D.O.A., President Donald Trump's 2019 fiscal plan due Monday is dead before it gets there. The original plan was for Trump's new budget to slash domestic agencies even further than last year's proposal, but instead it will land in Congress three days after he signed a two-year budget agreement that wholly rewrites both plans.
SHOCKING AUDIO: Obama Is Leading OFA in Shadow Government to Take Down Trump February 12, 2017 by Jim Hoft 306 Comments Author Ed Klein told Pete Hegseth on Fox and Friends Weekend in December that Barack Obama is setting up a shadow government in Washington DC to undermine President Trump after Inauguration Day. ed-klein-shadow-government Ed Klein: For the past 100 years every president who is outgoing has packed up his stuff gone home and not criticized his successor.
To hear one of the most passionate arguments on behalf of young U.S. immigrant "dreamers," look south of the border. Vicente Fox, the former president of Mexico, has become known as an antagonist of President Donald Trump , using combative and profane language to rail against the president's character and his positions on binational issues, from plans to extend the border wall to restrictionist policies on immigration.
Ever since California voters passed Proposition 13 40 years ago, the Capitol's annual budget wrangle has been dominated by how much money would go to K-12 schools for good reason. Not only are the schools educating six million kids, but they are number one on the voting public's priority list, and are by a large margin the biggest single slice of the general fund budget.
President Donald Trump's guests for his State of the Union speech Tuesday include an Ohio welder who will benefit from his tax overhaul plan and the parents of two Long Island teenagers who were believed to be killed by MS-13 gang members. Among his other guests are rescuers who battled wildfires in California and flooding in Texas, as well as a Marine who re-enlisted after losing his legs and going blind from a roadside bomb.
Controversial "heat-not-burn" tobacco devices might only get limited marketing in the United States, based on recommendations issued Thursday by an influential government panel. Controversial "heat-not-burn" tobacco devices might only get limited marketing in the United States, based on recommendations issued Thursday by an influential government panel.
The more than 200 kids riding in Sunday's Mardi Gras parade p... . Jack Spittler III waits as his costume is adjusted before the start of the Little Rascals Mardi Gras Ball in Kenner, La., Thursday, Jan. 25, 2018.
In this Jan. 9, 2018 photo, Enghie Melendez sits with her daughters Lidia, left, Alondra, and husband Fernando Moyet in their hotel kitchen in the Brooklyn borough of New York. After they lost their home in Puerto Rico to flooding during Hurricane Maria, Melendez fled with her family to the U.S. mainland with three suitcases and the hope that it wouldn't take long to rebuild their lives.
In this Friday, Jan. 26, 2018 photo, Keanu James watches during an art lesson by his grandmother, artist and author Maybeth Morales, left, at Morales' home in Watertown, Conn. Reports that 13 malnourished siblings allegedly hel... .
Say it with flowers: Lady Gaga and Kelly Clarkson lead #TimesUp protest on Grammys red carpet with a white rose inspired by the suffragettes Trump admits he tweets from bed, insists he eats 'quite well' and then tells Piers Morgan he's so popular in Britain he gets FAN MAIL despite huge UK protests planned for his visit Trump stayed at the White House all weekend to prepare for his first State of the Union address - where he'll tout economic progress and pledge to work with Democrats on infrastructure High school teacher is filmed telling students that military personnel are the 'lowest of the low' in a history class Paying to be popular! Investigation reveals actors, sports stars and even a Twitter board member are among 39,000 users who have paid an influence peddler a total of $6million for 200million FAKE followers Moment Instagram fitness model Jen Selter, 24, is removed from an ... (more)
President Donald Trump recently said he is open to letting DREAMers " morph into " citizens. Advocates argue these children had no choice in coming to the United States and should therefore not be punished.
Printus LeBlanc Guest Columnist Judging by a few recent announcements, it appears elected officials don't care about American citizens. The California Attorney General just announced any employer obeying federal immigration laws would face state charges.
A 15-year-old girl, later identified as Bailey Nicole Holt, died at the scene and a 15-year-old boy, later identified as Preston Ryan Cope, died at the hospital, Bevin said. The shooting took place just before 8 a.m. local time at Marshall County High School in Benton, Kentucky, about 120 miles northwest of Nashville, Tennessee.
Sen. Tammy Duckworth will make history when she becomes the first sitting senator in history to give birth later this year, her office said Tuesday. "Bryan and I are thrilled that our family is getting a little bit bigger, and Abigail is ecstatic to welcome her baby sister home this spring," she said in a statement.
'I made my own grave': Chilling moment pig farmer serial killer who murdered 49 prostitutes then ground them to MINCE unwittingly admits he got 'sloppy' by falling short of his target of 50 victims 'It's corruption of the highest levels of the FBI': Agency informant 'has told Congress a secret society at the bureau held clandestine off-site meetings after Trump's election victory' Find the Trump-hating FBI lovers' 50,000 missing texts NOW, Jeff Sessions orders his officials as White House says messages are 'possibly illegal' Don't build that wall ! Chuck Schumer says Democrats won't give Trump the extra billions he wants just days after promising it during shutdown negotiations Multiple Americans among the 22 killed by the Taliban in 13-hour siege at Kabul's Intercontinental Hotel after militants stormed the building in suicide vests Did infamous 1962 Alcatraz escapees SURVIVE? FBI now ... (more)
Former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords speaks, as her husband, Mark Kelly looks on, during the memorial dedication for Tucson's January 8th Memorial at El Presidio Park in Tucson on Jan. 8, 2018. The dedication was held on the seven-year anniversary of the Tucson-area mass shooting that left six people dead and 13 others injured, including Giffords.