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11:20 AM ET, March 16, 2017

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Washington Post:
Trump federal budget 2018: Massive cuts to the arts, science and the poor  —  President Trump on Thursday will unveil a budget plan that calls for a sharp increase in military spending and stark cuts across much of the rest of the government including the elimination of dozens …
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Joel Achenbach / Washington Post:
Trump's budget calls for seismic disruption in medical and science research  —  President Trump's budget calls for a seismic disruption in government-funded medical and scientific research.  The cuts are deep and broad.  —  They also go beyond what many political observers expected.
Discussion: Vox
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Mulvaney justifies budget: We can't ask a coal miner to pay for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting  —  As they fleshed out the budget blueprint released Thursday morning by the White House, Office of Management and Budget director Mick Mulvaney said officials from the administration …
New York Times:
Donald Trump Budget Slashes Funds for E.P.A. and State Department  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump's budget blueprint for the coming fiscal year would slash the Environmental Protection Agency by 31 percent and cut State Department spending by a similar amount in a brash upending …
Benjamin Locke / Occupy Democrats:
Trump Just Announced Plan To End ‘Meals On Wheels’ For Seniors
Discussion: New York Times and Daily Kos
Elaine Lies / Reuters:
Tillerson says State Department spending ‘simply not sustainable’
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Sarah Ferris / Politico:
Trump budget would pay for military buildup with domestic cuts
Discussion: ABC News
Dan Merica / CNN:
Trump to release ‘hard power budget’ with cuts to State Dept, EPA
Stephanie Simon / STAT:
Trump budget calls for slashing biomedical and science research funding
Discussion: The Atlantic and Washington Post
Jacob Gardenswartz / Vox:
Read President Trump's proposed federal budget
Discussion: Politico and ABC News
The Forward:
EXCLUSIVE: Nazi-Allied Group Claims Top Trump Aide Sebastian Gorka As Sworn Member  —  Sebastian Gorka, President Trump's top counter-terrorism adviser, is a formal member of a Hungarian far-right group that is listed by the U.S. State Department as having been “under the direction …
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Obama chief of staff: ‘The president cannot order a wiretap’ … Former President Barack Obama  —  's chief of staff on Thursday pushed back against President Trump's wiretapping allegations.  —  “The president cannot order a wiretap, president does not order a wiretap, the president did not order a wiretap,” Denis McDonough
Madeline Conway / Politico:
Trump defends claim that Obama wiretapped his phones
Discussion: ABC News, Political Wire and The Hill
Alexander Burns / New York Times:
2 Federal Judges Rule Against Trump's Latest Travel Ban  —  A federal judge in Hawaii issued a nationwide order Wednesday evening blocking President Trump's ban on travel from parts of the Muslim world, dealing a stinging blow to the White House and signaling that Mr. Trump will have to account …
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Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
Federal judge in Hawaii freezes President Trump's new entry ban
Nivea Serrao / EW.com:
Chelsea Clinton announces new picture book, She Persisted  —  Count Chelsea Clinton among the many people whom Elizabeth Warren inspired when she refused to be silenced in the Senate.  —  Clinton, the daughter of former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former U.S. President Bill Clinton …
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Acknowledges Repeal Bill Wouldn't Be Great For His Supporters  —  During an interview with Fox News' Tucker Carlson on Wednesday, President Donald Trump signaled that the Republican bill to repeal and replace Obamacare is not in its final form, admitting that the current legislation does not favor the voters who elected Trump.
Discussion: ThinkProgress and The Daily Caller
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Nervous GOP senators rooting for Ryan to fail
Discussion: Axios
Ian Tuttle / National Review:   Democrats' Sudden Amnesia about Obamacare's Many Ills
Ken Dilanian / NBC News:
Clinton Ally Says Smoke, But No Fire: No Russia-Trump Collusion  —  Former Acting CIA Director Michael Morell, who endorsed Hillary Clinton and called Donald Trump a dupe of Russia, cast doubt Wednesday night on allegations that members of the Trump campaign colluded with Russia.
Rich Lowry / Politico:
How the GOP Crackup Happens  —  Less than two weeks after the unveiling of the GOP Obamacare replacement, the party is already staring into the abyss.  —  The bill has had the worst rollout of any major piece of legislation in memory, and failure is very much an option.
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Tarini Parti / BuzzFeed:
Trump Aides Are Privately Blaming The Health Care Bill's Problems On Paul Ryan
Matt Fuller / The Huffington Post:
Conservatives Demand Changes On Health Care Bill As GOP Leaders Sound Shaky
Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Trump approval slips, even as more feel economy improving  —  Voters think President Trump is ahead of most previous presidents on fulfilling campaign promises, and the most voters in more than a decade see an improving economy.  Yet that isn't enough to put the president's job rating …
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Fox News:
Fox News Poll: 34% of voters favor GOP health care plan
Discussion: Washington Post and The Week
Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Republicans skeptical about paying for wall as Trump releases budget
Sam Knight / The Guardian:
Operation London Bridge: the secret plan for the days after the Queen's death  —  She is venerated around the world.  She has outlasted 12 US presidents.  She stands for stability and order.  But her kingdom is in turmoil, and her subjects are in denial that her reign will ever end.
Paulina Firozi / The Hill:
McDonald's tweets to Trump: ‘You are actually a disgusting excuse of a President’  —  McDonald's' in a tweet on its corporate account called President Trump “a disgusting excuse of a President” on Thursday morning.  —  The tweet, which was briefly pinned to the top of the account before being deleted …
Discussion: Politico and Axios
Alissa J. Rubin / New York Times:
Geert Wilders Falls Short as Wary Dutch Scatter Their Votes  —  THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The far-right politician Geert Wilders fell short of expectations in Dutch elections on Wednesday, gaining seats but failing to persuade a decisive portion of voters to back his extreme positions …
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Alastair Jamieson / NBC News:
Justin Trudeau Warns Trump About NAFTA Plan, Says Deal Is Good for U.S. Jobs  —  Donald Trump's plan to tear up NAFTA could hit U.S. jobs, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau warned in an exclusive interview with NBC News.  —  The president has begun moves to renegotiate what he called the …
Discussion: Washington Times
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Michael Paulson / New York Times:
Justin Trudeau Brings Ivanka Trump to Broadway Show on Welcoming Outsiders
Discussion: The Daily Caller and AOL
Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times:
The Increasing Significance of the Decline of Men  —  At one end of the scale, men continue to dominate.  —  In 2016, 95.8 percent of Fortune 500 CEOs were male and so were 348 of the Forbes 400.  Of the 260 people on the Forbes list described as “self-made,” 250 were men.
Eun Kyung Kim / TODAY.com:
UN Ambassador Nikki Haley on TODAY: ‘I will never support a Muslim ban’  —  United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley defended President Trump's attempt to ban travel from majority-Muslim countries, saying his executive orders aren't the same as the Muslim ban he promised during his presidential campaign.
Discussion: Politico and NBC News
Tristan Hallman / Dallas Morning News:
Dallas city leaders, T-Mobile vow to find solutions as 2nd death is publicly connected to 911 ‘ghost calls’  —  David Taffet came home last week to find his husband, Brian Cross, a little disoriented.  —  Cross hadn't eaten yet, so Taffet made him some dinner.  But after he ate, Cross lay down, went to sleep and started snoring.
Discussion: CBS Dallas and Engadget
Wall Street Journal:
Three Criteria for Health Reform  —  The House repeal-and-replace plan doesn't go far enough.  —  By  —  Republicans have a historic opportunity to follow through on our promise to repeal ObamaCare.  The recent elections that focused on the law's repeal—2010, 2014 and 2016—were massive GOP victories.
 
 
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CBS Miami:
MDCPS Superintendent: ‘Over My Dead Body’ Will Immigration Agents Enforce On School Grounds
Discussion: The Root
Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
New Chairman Begins to Remake the Democratic National Committee
Discussion: NBC News
CNBC:
600+ companies are bidding to build Trump's ‘border wall’ — including one from Mexico
Discussion: Washington Post and Axios
BuzzFeed:
How Trump's Lawyer Placed A Big Casino Bet That Left Dozens Empty-Handed
Yashar Ali / Mother Jones:
Secret Service Agents Under Investigation for Taking Photos of Donald Trump's Sleeping Grandson
Discussion: RedState
J. D. Vance / New York Times:
Why I'm Moving Home  —  COLUMBUS, Ohio — In recent months …
Discussion: Althouse
Amanda Whiting / Washingtonian:
Trump Places Personal Call To Tomi Lahren, Thanking Her After Hannity Appearance
Discussion: New York Magazine
Michael Barone / Washington Examiner:
Perceptions are that Trump's policies are working
Discussion: Instapundit
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