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Office of Management and Budget director Mick Mulvaney detailed President Trump’s 2018 budget proposal last week. Here’s what you need to know and what I have to say about it. Trump’s budget, like all other presidents’ budgets, is merely what the current administration hopes for and will not be enacted, includes $3.6 trillion in total spending reductions over the next decade with the biggest savings coming from the assumed adoption of the American Health Care Act, which faces quite a substantial hurdle in the Senate. The budget is titled: “A new foundation for American jobs” and this emphasis on economic...

Dinesh DSouza and Michael Shermer discuss "Alternative View to ObamaCare". (Sorry if it was posted before... didn't find it listed. Not even sure)

U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich's plea to supporters to send money has paid off. In the past six weeks, Kucinich raised nearly $700,000 in his bid to hold onto his 10th Congressional District seat. That brings his total to $735,000, the most he has amassed in a congressional race, including his initial bid 12 years ago against incumbent Martin Hoke. His top rival, Cleveland Councilman Joe Cimperman, reported total contributions of $487,000, a little over half which was raised this year. Thursday was the deadline for congressional candidates to file pre-primary finance reports with the Federal Elections Commission. To check the...