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The Jobs Programs Trump’s Budget Would Cut

By March 22, 2017 No Comments

The Atlantic, 17 March 2017

While the details of President Donald Trump’s proposed 2018 budget remain scant, one thing is clear: The Department of Labor will likely be one of the biggest losers.

Trump’s budget proposal would cut the department’s funding by $2.5 billion, or 21 percent, which will mean drastic changes for the work the department does.

The dramatic scale-back is meant to offset the proposed budget’s additional funding to national-security efforts.  The proposal says, ‘With the need to rebuild the Nation’s military without increasing the deficit, this Budget focuses the Department of Labor on its highest priority functions and disinvests in activities that are duplicative, unnecessary, unproven, or ineffective.

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