Podcast: Trump Budget Could Conflict With Spending Plans – Roll Call

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Podcast: Trump Budget Could Conflict With Spending Plans

CQ Budget, Episode 48

Boxes containing the President Donald Trump’'s fiscal year 2019 budget request are unpacked by staff in the House Budget Committee hearing room on Monday morning. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

By Jennifer Shutt and Niels Lesniewski

Posted February 12, 2018 at 9:56am

Roll Call senior Senate reporter Niels Lesniewski and CQ appropriations reporter Jennifer Shutt preview the Trump administration’s fiscal 2019 budget request, which is being released just days after Congress passed a $153 billion increase to next year’s discretionary spending cap.

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