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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 …
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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.
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.”
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Dan Merica / CNN:
Trump to release ‘hard power budget’ with cuts to State Dept, EPA — (CNN)The Trump administration will add detail to its plan to slash the federal budget Thursday morning, releasing its “America First” budget outline. — The blueprint will feature the broad strokes of President Donald Trump's plan …
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New York Magazine
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 …
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Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
Federal judge in Hawaii freezes President Trump's new entry ban — A federal judge in Hawaii on Wednesday issued a sweeping freeze of President Trump's new executive order, hours before it would have temporarily barred the issuance of new visas to citizens of six Muslim-majority countries and suspended the admission of new refugees.
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Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Ryan: Health care plan must change to pass the House — House Speaker Paul D. Ryan said Wednesday that his health care proposal must change to pass the House, marking a significant retreat from his earlier position that the carefully crafted legislation would fail if altered.
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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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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
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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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Madeline Conway / Politico:
Trump defends claim that Obama wiretapped his phones — President Donald Trump on Wednesday defended his explosive and so far unsupported claim that former President Barack Obama ordered an illegal wiretap of Trump Tower. — “Wiretap covers a lot of different things,” …
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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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Alissa J. Rubin / New York Times:
Geert Wilders Falls Short as Wary Dutch Scatter Their Votes — THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The far-right politician Geert Wilders fell short of expectations in Dutch elections on Wednesday, gaining seats but failing to persuade a decisive portion of voters to back his extreme positions …
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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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The Daily Caller, Occupy Democrats, Hit & Run, Raw Story and Hot Air
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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.
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.
Alastair Jamieson / NBC News:
Justin Trudeau Warns Trump About NAFTA Plan, Says Deal Is Good for U.S. Jobs — Donald Trump's plan to tear up NAFTA could hit U.S. jobs, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau warned in an exclusive interview with NBC News. — The president has begun moves to renegotiate what he called the …
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Washington Times
Obama Foundation:
Sportsmanship & Citizenship: President Obama's 2017 NCAA Basketball Championship Brackets — We heard from many of you that your experiences playing sports have helped you develop confidence, an appreciation for hard work, and a positive outlook despite the ups and downs of life.
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Sopan Deb / New York Times:
Trump Proposes Eliminating the Arts and Humanities Endowments — President Trump is proposing the elimination of the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities in his federal budget plan to be released early Thursday, the chairwoman of the arts endowment told her staff on Wednesday.
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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.
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