Economics
Trump Releases Budget With Deep Domestic Cuts, Deficit Spending
- Official release of White House document will come Monday
- Plan cuts welfare despite $966 billion in deficit spending
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President Donald Trump released his annual budget Monday, proposing deep cuts to social programs but increases in defense and entitlement spending that would push the gross federal debt above $30 trillion over the next decade.