Trump’s $4.4 trillion budget moves deficit sharply higher

President Donald Trump unveiled a $4.4 trillion budget for next year that heralds an era of $1 trillion-plus federal deficits and - unlike the plan he released last year - never comes close to promising a balanced ledger even after 10 years. The growing deficits reflect, in great part, the impact of last year's tax overhaul, which is projected to cause federal tax revenue to drop.

President Trump’s $4 trillion budget helps move deficit sharply higher

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.

Trump’s $4 trillion budget helps move deficit sharply higher

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.

Trump budget plan already outdated after budget deal

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.

Jeanine Pirro Under Fire After Blaming President Obama for Rob…

Registration will allow you to post comments on newstimes.com and create a newstimes.com Subscriber Portal account for you to manage subscriptions and email preferences. "So, for everyone who's looking for someone to blame .... you might want to look at the last president," Fox News host says in epic... Jeanine Pirro found an unusual target for the ongoing White House scandal surrounding former Trump White House aide Rob Porter: President Barack Obama.

NYT Celebrates MSNBC’s Joy Reid, ‘Hero of the Resistance,’ Downplays Homophobic Posts

The front of today's New York Times Sunday Styles section features a profile of MSNBC host Joy Reid, " A Hero of the Resistance, " by Laura Holson. The online headline's subhead: "The daughter of immigrants, she spars fiercely with supporters of President Trump, both on the air and in the Twitter ether."

Nobel nomination’s impact on reform can only be negative

The nomination of radical student activist Joshua Wong Chi-fung, two allies and the 2014 Occupy movement adds power to the arm of hawks in Beijing and marginalises those who are not unamenable to some degree of electoral freedom for Hong Kong It is not normally known who has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize - let alone who is being seriously considered - unless the nominators reveal the names to serve their own agenda. The Norwegian Nobel committee applies a 50-year secrecy rule to the nominees.

Unfulfilled pledge by Trump White House on Spanish website

A year into the Trump administration, the White House website still has no Spanish-language content, unlike during the two previous administrations and even though nearly 1 in 5 people in the United States speaks Spanish. Even Iran and reclusive North Korea have made efforts to reach out to the Spanish-speaking world.

US Justice Deparment’s No. 3 official resigns: Report

Deputy US Attorney General, Rod Rosenstein, , and Associate Attorney General Rachel Brand: Brand is stepping down after nine months, the New York Times reported AFP/MARK WILSON WASHINGTON: The third-ranking official at the US Justice Department is resigning just nine months after taking the powerful position, the New York Times reported Friday . The resignation of Associate Attorney General Rachel Brand, a national security law expert, comes as President Donald Trump and Republican legislators have stepped up attacks on the department over special prosecutor Robert Mueller's investigation of possible Trump campaign links to Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Authorities: Officer, suspect dead in shooting near Atlanta

Oklahoma's attorney general says he was not asked by a convicted soldier or his family to support the soldier's request for a presidential pardon. An Indiana-born federal judge, whose Mexican heritage Donald Trump used to paint him as biased against him in a 2016 court case because of his immigration stance, will hear arguments in a lawsuit that could block... An Indiana-born federal judge, whose Mexican heritage Donald Trump used to paint him as biased against him in a 2016 court case because of his immigration stance, will hear arguments in a lawsuit that could block construction of a border wall with Mexico.

Obama-backed committee targeting races in 11 states updated

A Democratic group backed by former President Barack Obama said this week it plans to invest millions of dollars in state-level elections in 11 states this year, with its heaviest focus on Ohio. The National Democratic Redistricting Committee, led by former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, said this year's election cycle is critical to affecting the congressional redistricting process.

Bear Grylls: Donald Trump would make a good survivor in the wild

Bear Grylls has said he thinks Donald Trump could be a good survivor in the wild, although he is unsure if the president's hair "would cope". The TV adventurer previously featured President Barack Obama on his survival skills programme Running Wild in 2015, and he said he would consider doing the same with Mr Trump.

The Obama-Trump Foreign Policy

It is a conceit of the Trump administration that its foreign policy is entirely different from that of Barack Obama. Even in an otherwise conciliatory State of the Union address, Trump strove to set himself apart from Obama, touting his own policy of "maximum pressure" on North Korea as an example of how he would not "repeat the mistakes of past administrations."