Justice Department would see small cut under Trump’s budget plan

By Kelly Cohen

Published February 12, 2018 5:48pm ET

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The Department of Justice would get the smallest budget cut among all cabinet-level agencies if the White House’s 2019 budget proposal were to become law.

The Justice Department’s 2017 budget was $28.4 billion before dropping down to an estimated $28.1 billion in 2018. President Trump’s request for fiscal year 2019 is $28 billion — just a 1.3 percent cut from 2017 to 2019.

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