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President Trump's budget proposal
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March 17, 2017
Defunding the Corporation for Public Broadcasting won’t kill PBS. It will hurt Trump voters.
Most of the organization’s money goes toward keeping rural PBS and NPR stations alive.
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March 17, 2017
Trump’s budget would cut funding for Appalachia — and his allies in coal country are livid
A top House Republican from Kentucky calls the cuts "draconian, careless and counterproductive."
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March 17, 2017
Trump’s budget cripples the EPA’s ability to keep drinking water safe
The EPA’s power to act on crises like lead pollution in Flint, Michigan would be hobbled.
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March 17, 2017
White House says Meals on Wheels is “not showing any results.” Research says otherwise.
Shockingly, delivering meals to seniors leads to healthier, better-fed seniors.
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March 16, 2017
Trump's budget has a radical plan for remaking US foreign policy
The budget won’t pass. But what it says about the president is really, really important.
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March 16, 2017
The Trump budget assault on science, in one chart
“Make no mistake: These numbers would be crippling to much of the federal science apparatus.”
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March 16, 2017
4 winners and 4 losers from Trump's foreign policy budget
A lot of money for guns, a lot less money for diplomacy and aid.
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March 16, 2017
Be skeptical of Trump’s claim that he’s adding $500 million to fight the opioid epidemic
The funding, supposedly in Trump’s new budget, may actually come from a bill passed by President Barack Obama.
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March 16, 2017
Trump's budget on health: 3 losers and 2 winners
Pro: a new pandemic response fund and renewed commitments to fight HIV. Con: Health research is crippled.
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March 16, 2017
Trump’s budget envisions a US government that barely deals with climate change at all
His proposal includes sweeping cuts to the EPA, to clean energy programs, and even to NASA’s Earth monitoring.
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March 16, 2017
Trump’s budget is everything scientists have been fearing
The outline cuts at least $7 billion for research on climate change, diseases, and energy.
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March 16, 2017
Budgets are moral documents, and Trump’s is a moral failure
The poor, and the planet, suffer the most.
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March 16, 2017
Trump’s budget blueprint is a war on the future of the American economy
Where we’re going, we won’t need science or education. Except we will.
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March 16, 2017
Donald Trump's first budget outline, explained
Big cuts to climate change and programs for the poor.
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March 16, 2017
Trump’s budget has some good news for opponents of mass incarceration
Trump talked a big “tough on crime” game on the campaign trail, but his budget has a more nuanced story.
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March 16, 2017
One important exception to Trump’s budget cuts: programs to fight AIDS
The administration calls for some sharp health cuts, except to HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention.
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March 16, 2017
Read President Trump’s proposed federal budget
The president wants deep cuts to the EPA and State Department to fund increased defense spending.
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March 15, 2017
The long path President Trump's budget needs to take to become law, explained
Trump’s budget is the beginning, not the end.
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February 28, 2017
Trump says he's boosting defense spending by $54 billion. The real number is $18 billion.
The White House says defense spending will go up by $54 billion. The numbers say otherwise.
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February 28, 2017
“It’s dead on arrival.” Republicans in Congress are balking at Trump’s sweeping budget cuts.
The budget reportedly slashes the EPA by 24% and the State Department by 30%.
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February 27, 2017
Trump’s plan to increase military spending by cutting EPA and foreign aid: what we know
The EPA and foreign aid would be hit particularly hard. Here’s what we know.
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February 17, 2017
Report: Trump transition ordered government economists to cook up rosy growth forecasts
The Trump University economics department strikes again.