Obama’s Budget Increases Spending by $56 Billion

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President Obama’s budget marks the end of “austerity,” reports the Washington Post. 

“President Obama’s forthcoming budget request will seek tens of billions of dollars in fresh spending for domestic priorities while abandoning a compromise proposal to tame the national debt in part by trimming Social Security benefits,” the report reads.

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