The coming Republican fight on spending

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President Trump fired the opening salvo for war over government spending with his first federal budget blueprint last month. But this “skinny budget” was limited to the new president’s outlook on discretionary spending levels set by lawmakers each year, leaving special interests to compete for slices of a shrinking pie.

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