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Washington Post:
Trump federal budget 2018: Massive cuts to the arts, science and the poor  —  President Trump on Thursday will unveil a budget plan that calls for a sharp increase in military spending and stark cuts across much of the rest of the government including the elimination of dozens …
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New York Times:
Donald Trump Budget Slashes Funds for E.P.A. and State Department  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump's budget blueprint for the coming fiscal year would slash the Environmental Protection Agency by 31 percent and cut State Department spending by a similar amount in a brash upending …
Benjamin Locke / Occupy Democrats:
Trump Just Announced Plan To End ‘Meals On Wheels’ For Seniors  —  Throughout his campaign for president and since his election, Donald Trump has promised to reduce the size of government, cut taxes, eliminate regulations and slash numerous social programs, even as he boosts defense spending by billions.
Discussion: New York Times and Daily Kos
Joel Achenbach / Washington Post:
Trump's budget calls for seismic disruption in medical and science research  —  President Trump's budget calls for a seismic disruption in government-funded medical and scientific research.  The cuts are deep and broad.  —  They also go beyond what many political observers expected.
Sarah Ferris / Politico:
Trump budget would pay for military buildup with domestic cuts  —  The Trump administration is calling for a $54 billion increase in military spending to be paid for with cuts to nearly every domestic department, branding the president's first official spending proposal a “hard-power budget.”
Discussion: ABC News
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Mulvaney justifies budget: We can't ask a coal miner to pay for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting  —  As they fleshed out the budget blueprint released Thursday morning by the White House, Office of Management and Budget director Mick Mulvaney said officials from the administration …
Discussion: The Week
Dan Merica / CNN:
Trump to release ‘hard power budget’ with cuts to State Dept, EPA
Discussion: New York Magazine
Jacob Gardenswartz / Vox:
Read President Trump's proposed federal budget
Discussion: Politico and ABC News
Stephanie Simon / STAT:
Trump budget calls for slashing biomedical and science research funding
Discussion: The Atlantic and Washington Post
Elaine Lies / Reuters:
Tillerson says State Department spending ‘simply not sustainable’
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Bloomberg:
Trump Would Slash Medical Research in 23% Cut to Health Budget
Discussion: Axios
Laura Jarrett / CNN:
Federal judge blocks new Trump travel ban  —  (CNN)A federal judge in Hawaii has blocked President Donald Trump's new travel ban on Wednesday afternoon, hours before the ban was set to go into effect.  —  This ruling means that travelers from six Muslim-majority countries and refugees will be able to travel to the US.
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Alexander Burns / New York Times:
2 Federal Judges Rule Against Trump's Latest Travel Ban  —  A federal judge in Hawaii issued a nationwide order Wednesday evening blocking President Trump's ban on travel from parts of the Muslim world, dealing a stinging blow to the White House and signaling that Mr. Trump will have to account …
Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:   The Note: Trump's travel ban 0 for 2
Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
Federal judge in Hawaii freezes President Trump's new entry ban
Associated Press:   THE LATEST: JUDGE WHO PUT BAN ON HOLD QUESTIONS EVIDENCE
Rich Lowry / Politico:
How the GOP Crackup Happens  —  Less than two weeks after the unveiling of the GOP Obamacare replacement, the party is already staring into the abyss.  —  The bill has had the worst rollout of any major piece of legislation in memory, and failure is very much an option.
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Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Ryan: Health care plan must change to pass the House
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Nervous GOP senators rooting for Ryan to fail
Discussion: Axios
Matt Fuller / The Huffington Post:   Conservatives Demand Changes On Health Care Bill As GOP Leaders Sound Shaky
Tarini Parti / BuzzFeed:
Trump Aides Are Privately Blaming The Health Care Bill's Problems On Paul Ryan
Discussion: Hot Air and Washington Examiner
Ken Dilanian / NBC News:
Clinton Ally Says Smoke, But No Fire: No Russia-Trump Collusion  —  Former Acting CIA Director Michael Morell, who endorsed Hillary Clinton and called Donald Trump a dupe of Russia, cast doubt Wednesday night on allegations that members of the Trump campaign colluded with Russia.
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Nick Bolger / Washington Free Beacon:   FBI Deputy Director Did Not Include Wife's Ties to Clinton Ally in Financial Disclosure Forms
Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times:
The Increasing Significance of the Decline of Men  —  At one end of the scale, men continue to dominate.  —  In 2016, 95.8 percent of Fortune 500 CEOs were male and so were 348 of the Forbes 400.  Of the 260 people on the Forbes list described as “self-made,” 250 were men.
Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Trump approval slips, even as more feel economy improving  —  Voters think President Trump is ahead of most previous presidents on fulfilling campaign promises, and the most voters in more than a decade see an improving economy.  Yet that isn't enough to put the president's job rating …
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Fox News:
Fox News Poll: 34% of voters favor GOP health care plan
Discussion: Washington Post and The Week
Fox News:
Trump says he will submit evidence of wiretapping to House committee ‘very soon’  —  President Trump discussed his tweeted accusation that President Obama ordered “wires” at Trump Tower tapped during last year's presidential campaign in an exclusive interview with Fox News' “Tucker Carlson Tonight” Wednesday.
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Obama chief of staff: ‘The president cannot order a wiretap’ … Former President Barack Obama  —  's chief of staff on Thursday pushed back against President Trump's wiretapping allegations.  —  “The president cannot order a wiretap, president does not order a wiretap, the president did not order a wiretap,” Denis McDonough
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Acknowledges Repeal Bill Wouldn't Be Great For His Supporters  —  During an interview with Fox News' Tucker Carlson on Wednesday, President Donald Trump signaled that the Republican bill to repeal and replace Obamacare is not in its final form, admitting that the current legislation does not favor the voters who elected Trump.
Discussion: ThinkProgress
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Associated Press:
Dutch PM Rutte claims win over ‘wrong kind of populism’
Discussion: Hot Air
Nivea Serrao / EW.com:
Chelsea Clinton announces new picture book, She Persisted  —  Count Chelsea Clinton among the many people whom Elizabeth Warren inspired when she refused to be silenced in the Senate.  —  Clinton, the daughter of former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former U.S. President Bill Clinton …
Andrew Kirell / The Daily Beast:
McCain: Rand Paul ‘Is Now Working for Vladimir Putin’  —  Sen. John McCain on Wednesday directly accused fellow Republican Sen. Rand Paul of working for Russian President Vladimir Putin.  While speaking from the Senate floor in support of a bill advancing Montenegro's bid to join NATO …
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Wall Street Journal:
Three Criteria for Health Reform  —  The House repeal-and-replace plan doesn't go far enough.  —  By  —  Republicans have a historic opportunity to follow through on our promise to repeal ObamaCare.  The recent elections that focused on the law's repeal—2010, 2014 and 2016—were massive GOP victories.
Tristan Hallman / Dallas Morning News:
Dallas city leaders, T-Mobile vow to find solutions as 2nd death is publicly connected to 911 ‘ghost calls’  —  David Taffet came home last week to find his husband, Brian Cross, a little disoriented.  —  Cross hadn't eaten yet, so Taffet made him some dinner.  But after he ate, Cross lay down, went to sleep and started snoring.
Discussion: Engadget
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CBS Dallas / Fort Worth:
Dallas Baby Dies After Babysitter Unable To Reach 911
Discussion: IJR
Michael Barone / Washington Examiner:
Perceptions are that Trump's policies are working  —  Perceptions matter.  People make decisions, even life-altering decisions, based on what they perceive as likely to happen.  To the extent that public policy affects such decisions, the perception of likely policy change can affect behavior …
Discussion: Instapundit
 
 
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The Forward:
EXCLUSIVE: Nazi-Allied Group Claims Top Trump Aide Sebastian Gorka As Sworn Member
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Christopher Ingraham / Washington Post:
Trump's military spending bump could fund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting for the next 121 years
Discussion: Politico, Axios and The Resurgent
Alastair Jamieson / NBC News:
Justin Trudeau Warns Trump About NAFTA Plan, Says Deal Is Good for U.S. Jobs
Discussion: NBC News and Washington Times
Jake Tapper / CNN:
House Intel Committee seeks names of Obama officials who requested ‘unmasking’ of Americans picked up on surveillance
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Ian Tuttle / National Review:
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Los Angeles Times:
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Discussion: The Root and RedState
CBS Miami:
Trump Advisor Claims Hit & Run “Could Be” Russian Hacking Scandal Retaliation
Ben White / Politico:
Dina Powell to be named Trump's deputy national security adviser
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Wherever Trump goes, his gang of aides stays close by
Discussion: Political Wire