Democrats denounce ‘devastating cuts’ in Trump budget plan

Published February 10, 2020 9:56pm ET



President Trump’s 2021 budget proposal prompted immediate opposition from House and Senate Democrats, who condemned the plan’s 6% cut to nondefense spending and its provisions to slow the growth of entitlements.

“With his latest budget proposal, it’s hard to imagine that President Trump could do any more to double-cross the very American workers and middle-class families he promised to help just last week in his State of the Union address,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat, said Monday. “As typical, President Trump’s budget shows his State of the Union address was lie upon lie to the American people.”

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