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Trump's $4.8 billion budget proposal revisits rejected cuts

by Associated Press
| February 9, 2020 9:30 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is offering a $4.8 trillion election-year budget plan that recycles previously rejected cuts to domestic programs to promise a balanced budget in 15 years — all while boosting the military and leaving Social Security and Medicare benefits untouched.

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