Kellyanne Conway: Trump isn’t proposing spending cuts, just reducing government growth

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White House counselor Kellyanne Conway and ABC host George Stephanopoulos clashed repeatedly over the definition of what a budget cut is, with Conway insisting the president’s budget doesn’t reduce spending, it just reduces the rate of growth government spending.

“You keep calling them cuts. We don’t see them as cuts,” Conway told Stephanopoulos during a lengthy back and forth on the subject Sunday morning.

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