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struggle4progress

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Sun May 21, 2017, 09:08 PM May 2017

Republicans giving budget a cold shoulder

CBS/AP
May 21, 2017, 4:58 PM

... budget hasn't been released yet, but that's not stopping some of Capitol Hill's .. important Republicans from giving it a cold shoulder.

... blueprint for .. 2018 .. comes out Tuesday, and it's certain to include a wave of cuts to benefit programs such as Medicaid, food stamps, federal employee pensions and farm subsidies.

The fleshed-out proposal follows up on an unpopular partial release in March that targeted the budgets of domestic agencies and foreign aid for cuts averaging 10 percent -- and made lawmakers in both parties recoil.

The new cuts are unpopular as well ...


http://www.cbsnews.com/news/republicans-already-giving-trumps-budget-a-cold-shoulder/

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