The spending bills now being put together by Republican-led House will include “brutal budget cuts” that would harm social programs as well as research, Senate Democrats said in a recently released list of programs likely to be cut in the House appropriations bills.
An updated version of President Trump’s budget request published on May 2 comes as a disappointment for those who hoped that the White House would rethink the draconian cuts contained in an earlier, confidential version of the document that ended up being leaked to the press.
