State Department makes quiet case against budget cuts

Published March 7, 2017 9:49pm ET



President Trump’s provisional plan to cut State Department funding by up to 37 percent won’t come to pass, a department spokesman suggested.

“I would be cautious to say that that preliminary number that’s floating out there is where we’re going to end up,” acting State Department spokesman Mark Toner told reporters in the first on-camera department press briefing of the Trump administration.

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