Podcast: The Budget Disconnect Within the Trump Administration – Roll Call

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Podcast: The Budget Disconnect Within the Trump Administration

Budget Tracker Extra, Episode 22

Eric Ueland, staff director for the Senate Budget Committee, is one of many high-profile staffers leaving Capitol Hill. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

By Jane Norman, Kellie Mejdrich and Paul M. Krawzak

Posted June 19, 2017 at 1:22pm

As lawmakers start to work on fiscal 2018 spending bills, some Cabinet secretaries who appear before them are doing little to defend President Donald Trump’s budget request, say CQ budget reporters Kellie Mejdrich and Paul M. Krawzak. Also, there are hints that appropriators are willing to consider giving the Pentagon even more money than what Trump is requesting.

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