With tax increases on the wealthy and cuts to programs such as Social Security, the new White House budget proposal revealed on Wednesday appears to be something of a compromise between a more liberal Senate version and the Republican’s budget that focuses almost solely on cuts to federal spending.
Naturally, such a compromise has been heavily criticized by both parties.
Host Carmen Russell-Sluchansky spoke with Mark Rom, co-director of undergraduate studies and director of the MA program for American government at Georgetown University, to analyze the budget.
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