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Trump releases budget calling for 5 percent cuts in domestic spending

President Trump on Monday unveiled his 2020 budget proposal, calling for domestic spending cuts of 5 percent across the federal government.

The White House, in Trump’s latest budget, would turbo-charge defense spending while providing $8.6 billion to fund his proposed southern border wall.

The proposal would raise overall defense spending to $750 billion, up from $716 billion in 2019, while slashing nondefense programs to $567 billion, down from the $597 billion allocated in 2019.

View the complete March 11 article by Niv Elis on The Hill website here.

Trump’s budget cuts Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security, breaking core campaign promise

The following article by Ryan Koronowski was posted on the ThinkProgress website February 12, 2018:

This would be over a trillion dollars in cuts to some of the nation’s most vulnerable.

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When he began his presidential campaign, Donald Trump promised to “save Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security without cuts.”

This is a promise, however, President Trump would like to break. Trump’s 2018 budget proposal would cut all three programs, which help the most vulnerable in American society, by billions of dollars.

Fox News’s website tells readers that Medicare is spared “as he promised during the 2016 campaign,” but a cursory search of the White House’s own budget document reveals this is not true. Continue reading “Trump’s budget cuts Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security, breaking core campaign promise”