Trump’s budget fails to address spending problem

Published March 12, 2019 4:02am ET



Washington has a spending problem, and President Trump’s budget doesn’t try to fix it.

Trump’s budget lays out a course of growing deficits and debt. It leans on rosy economic forecasts to dampen deficit predictions and points to weak “reforms” to Medicare in order to wear a phony mantle of fiscal responsibility.

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