Obama Proposing $4-Trillion 2017 Budget

U.S. President Barack Obama is unveiling a $4-trillion-plus federal spending plan Tuesday for the year that starts next October, but the Republican-controlled Congress is already signaling it will ignore many of his new initiatives during his last year in office. In a presidential election year to pick his successor, the Democratic president is proposing programs sure to appeal to supporters of the eventual Democratic presidential nominee and likely opposed, at least in part, by the...

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