Trump’s Budget Proposal

This week’s story update on the Election Central Web site explains the numbers behind the Trump administration’s federal budget proposal.

Two weeks ago, the federal government shut down for a night as lawmakers struggled to reach a compromise over a new two-year spending bill. The one that Trump finally signed, which reopened the government, asked to raise both domestic and military spending by $300 billion.

But on Monday, President Trump unveiled his $4.4 trillion budget proposal to Congress. This plan differed in some important ways from the bill he signed and agreed to just the week before. Here, Election Central takes a look at the “winners” and “losers” under the new plan, and what it would do to the federal deficit if enacted.

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