Trump scales back request for stiff budget cuts
The Trump administration is still urging severe austerity for some arms of the federal government.
By SARAH FERRIS and JENNIFER SCHOLTES
02/11/2018 07:20 PM EST
Updated 02/12/2018 12:09 PM EST
The White House released a decade-long budget request Monday that lays out $3.6 trillion in deficit reduction while calling for hundreds of billions more to be pumped into the Pentagon.
The Trump administration is proposing deeper cuts to safety net programs — including Medicare, which the president on the campaign trail swore he wouldn’t touch — to help fund what it calls a “more lethal†military.
But the White House's request is a jumble of mixed messages, since the Trump administration was forced to do some fast accounting after lawmakers on Friday cleared a massive two-year spending deal.
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