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Fear not the Trump budget “outline”
Apr 7, 2017, 14:12 PM
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One of the most overblown stories in both trade and general media is that President Trump’s scary budget outline released 10 days ago, the one which sacrifices domestic programs and foreign aid to increase the Pentagon’s budget, will somehow become the law of the land, directing FY2018 federal spending and whacking USDA’s budget by 20%-plus.
The congressional budget process is a numbers/process geek’s heaven. First, it must be understood that a budget outline, even a budget “report” is not a budget proposal.
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