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The US budget: riddled with unreal assumptions and wishful thinking

Thu, May 25, 2017 - 5:50 AM

US President Donald Trump's first budget, which was released on Tuesday, appears to be a politically unrealistic combination of severe cuts in social programmes as well as wildly optimistic projections for both economic growth and the US economy's future fiscal position.

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