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Topic: 2018 proposed budget

Mitch McConnell; Donald Trump; Paul Ryan (AP/Alex Brandon/Reuters/Rick Wilking/AP/J. Scott Applewhite/Photo montage by Salon)

GOP faces major political pain

Heather Digby Parton

Trump's hits keep on coming

Charlie May
Mick Mulvaney (Getty/Chip Somodevilla)

Mick Mulvaney's snake oil

Gary Legum
(AP/Nader Daoud)

Chomsky on Trump

Alexandra Rosenmann - Alternet
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Private defense companies

Charles Mahoney - The Conversation
(AP/Darron Cummings)

Trump's "populism" in collapse

Conor Lynch
President Donald Trump speaks while aboard the nuclear aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford, Thursday, March 2, 2017, at Newport News Shipbuilding in Newport, Va. Trump traveled to Virginia to meet with sailors and shipbuilders on aircraft carrier which is scheduled to be commissioned this year after cost overruns and delays. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) (AP)

A useless weapons expenditure

Patrick Malone
Donald Trump; Paul Ryan (AP/J. Scott Applewhite/Getty/Olivier Douliery/Kevin Hagen/Montage by Salon)

A tale of two budgets

Paul Rosenberg
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Trump's budget vision: Ugly

Chauncey DeVega
(AP/Getty/Shutterstock/Salon)

Trump Attacks The Economy

Amanda Marcotte
Budget Director Mick Mulvaney (AP/Andrew Harnik)

Trump brutal budget gouge

Gary Legum
President Donald Trump walks down the steps of Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base in Md., Wednesday, May 17, 2017. Trump went to the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn., where he gave the commencement address. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Trump budget: Dead on arrival

Heather Digby Parton
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Mitch McConnell; Paul Ryan (AP/Evan Vucci//Getty/Mark Wilson)

The GOP's biggest budget lies

Paul Rosenberg
(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Bruce Weinberg - The Conversation
(AP Photo/NASA)

Andrea Thompson - Climate Central
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