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White House unveils Trump budget

White House LogoWASHINGTON (AP) — White House budget director Mick Mulvaney calls it a “hard power budget, not a soft power budget,” while President Donald Trump says it “puts America first must make the safety of our people its number one priority.”

The $1.15 trillion budget finances a significant increase in the military and makes a down payment on a U.S.-Mexico border wall with hefty cuts elsewhere.

Foreign aid has been slashed, with funding for the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development down 28 percent, or $10 billion. The Environmental Protection agency gets a more than 31 percent cut, with 3,200 jobs eliminated.

The budget goes after the frequent targets of the party’s staunchest conservatives, eliminating the National Endowment for the Arts, legal aid for the poor, low-income heating assistance and the AmeriCorps national service program established by former President Bill Clinton.

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