Obama’s Budget: Spending Delays and Endangered Butterflies
When you have a quarter of the nation’s $17 trillion economy to play with, it’s inevitable that you and your political opponents will clash over what to do with the money.
President Barack Obama’s nearly $4 trillion budget for 2016, with the thumbs-down it got from Republican leaders, is no different. But while such partisan clashes are important, smaller tidbits can be just as interesting.
Here are five things great and small about the president’s spending plan and the GOP reaction to it.
To be precise, Obama’s budget claims 2016 spending of $3.999 trillion.
Is it a coincidence that the total falls just below the more attention-grabbing figure of $4 trillion?
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