Trump’s budget draws comparisons to Reagan

Published May 24, 2017 4:01am ET



Leading fiscal conservatives are showering President Trump’s first federal budget proposal with some of their highest praise: comparisons to Ronald Reagan.

“This is the most fiscally conservative budget since Reagan,” Chris Edwards, director of tax policy studies at the Cato Institute and editor of Downsizing Government, told the Washington Examiner.

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