President Trump’s record on the deficit is poised to take another hit.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin are preparing a spending deal that could add as much as $2 trillion to the national debt over a decade.
Trump has sought to avoid signing additional expensive spending bills ahead of his reelection bid next year, and his team had put forward proposals to reduce domestic spending.
View the complete July 19 article by Niv Elis on The Hill website here.