Trump’s $4 Trillion Budget Helps Move Deficit Sharply Higher

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump is proposing a $4 trillion-plus budget that projects a $1 trillion or so federal deficit.
Unlike the plan Trump released last year, the 2019 budget never comes close to promising a balanced federal ledger even after 10 years.
And that’s before last week’s agreement for $300 billion is added this year and next, a deal that showers both the Pentagon and domestic agencies with big budget increases.
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