Republicans brush off Trump budget request

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Congress loves to ignore presidential budget requests, and this year, lawmakers are even more eager to dismiss President Trump’s spending blueprint.

“In all the years I’ve been here, there has never been a president’s budget that has passed as submitted, and I don’t think this will be any different,” Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, told reporters as she left the Senate Monday night.

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