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President Trump's budget blueprint would increase defense spending and significantly decrease domestic spending across federal agencies.
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President Trump's budget blueprint, released Thursday, would and significantly cut discretionary domestic spending across federal agencies. “We went back and pulled lines from speeches, interviews and turned his words, his policies into numbers,” Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney in an interview. Senate Intelligence Committee leaders they have not seen any evidence to substantiate Trump’sWhite House Press Secretary Sean Spicer that the administration plans to appeal rulings from two federal judges that temporarily blocked the president’s revised travel ban from taking effect.

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