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President Trump released a budget outline this week that offers $163 billion in cuts to domestic spending.
His plan would slash the budget for the Centers for Disease Control by more than half and gut an initiative that allows low-income Americans to pay their energy bills.
NPR's Ron Elving says there's already some grumbling on Capitol Hill over the proposal.
In the House,
you hear similar objections to the ones we're hearing from the Senate from Republicans in swing districts.
But you're also hearing from the hardcore budget hawks.
who want Trump to go further.
They want deep, long-term cuts, and now, while the political climate still feels like last fall,
and they are afraid another budget cycle will go by,
and they'll have missed the chance for that fundamental change in what the government does.
NPR's Ron Elving.
Texas has officially joined more than 30 other states that have an education savings account plan,
the Texas newsroom's Blaise Gainey reports.