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The Fiscal 2018 Budget: It’ll Be a Slog

Budget Tracker Extra, Episode 16

By Jane Norman and David Lerman
Posted May 8, 2017 at 11:09am


 

With fiscal 2017 spending finally done, lawmakers are belatedly poised to begin working on fiscal 2018 funding, say CQ Roll Call’s budget editor Jane Norman and Budget Tracker editor David Lerman. But the freshly passed House health care bill is likely to consume lawmakers’ time, further jamming up budget work, adds Lerman.

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