Will Conservative Budget Hawks Cave to Trump?
The president’s budget leaves Social Security and Medicare untouched, much to the frustration of small-government conservatives.
by McKay Coppins
Feb 28, 2017
3 minutes
When President Trump stands to deliver his first address to Congress Tuesday night, he will lay out a fiscal agenda that upends key planks of conservative orthodoxy and openly defies the die-hard budget hawks in his own party.
But don’t expect to hear a peep of opposition from Republicans.
The proposed budget Trump is expected to outline in his speech would considerably increase defense spending, slash funding for other domestic programs, and—most significantly—leave entitlement
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