Budget Plan
- Trump’s $4.8 Trillion Budget Plan Includes Cuts To Farm Subsidies, Food Stamps And Medicaid by Andrew Taylor / AP (Huffington Post)
- Trump’s budget built on proposals to please his conservative base in election year, Democrats claim by John T Bennett (Independent)
- Trump To Again Propose Slashing Foreign Aid In Budget by Ayesha Rascoe, Roberta Rampton (NPR)
- Trump submits $4.8tn budget proposal despite no chance of it passing by Edward Helmore (The Guardian)
- The 2 most controversial national security items in Trump’s new budget by Alex Ward (Vox)
- Trump’s new budget proposal slashes Medicaid, Medicare, pesky CDC funding by Bess Levin (Vanity Fair)
- Democrats preview election-year attacks on Trump budget by David Lerman (Roll Call)
- Trump vowed to not cut Social Security and Medicare — hours before proposing just that by Aaron Rupar (Vox)
- Trump’s Budget Is a $292 Billion Attack on Poor Americans by Nathalie Baptiste (Mother Jones)
- National Institutes of Health would see 7% cut in 2021 under White House plan by Jocelyn Kaiser (Science Magazine)
Other News
- Trump’s border wall is destroying sacred Native American sites, congressman says by Paulina Firozi (Independent)
- Trump’s ‘dream scenario’ unfolds: Dem disarray ahead of 2020 by Gabby Orr (Politico)
- Trump predicts impeachment will complicate reelection for Schumer, Nadler by Quint Forgey (Politico)
- READ: Schumer’s letter accusing Trump of ‘pattern of retaliation’ against whistleblowers (The Hill)
- Amazon seeks to depose Trump, Esper in JEDI bid protest by Aaron Gregg and Jay Greene (Washington Post)
- More than 100 US troops suffered traumatic brain injury in Iran strike, military to report (The Guardian)
- New York sues Trump administration over exclusion from traveler programs (Reuters)
- Saudi Arabia Rebuffs Trump Administration’s Requests to Stop Teaching Hate Speech in Schools by Kimberly Dozier (TIME)
- Amazon Wants Trump To Testify About Military Contract Awarded To Microsoft by Alina Selyukh (NPR)
- Kellyanne Conway says more officials may be ousted after Trump’s Senate acquittal by Quint Forgey (Politico)
- Trump’s ‘retaliation’ against impeachment witnesses spurs call to investigate amid fierce criticism by Ramsey Touchberry (Newsweek)
- Trump administration goes to war with states over immigration by Josh Gerstein (Politico)
Analysis
- King Donald: After acquittal, Trump moves to seize power — and alter reality by Chauncey DeVega (Salon)
- Real pay data show Trump’s “blue collar boom” is more of a bust for U.S. workers by David Salkever (Salon)
- Trump’s Friday Night Massacre Places Him Firmly in Autocrat Territory by Ryan Goodman and Joshua A. Geltzer (Slate)
- The Supreme Court Is As Complicit As the Senate by Leah Litman (Slate)