The White House released its “skinny budget,” a simplified version of the administration’s federal budget proposal for the 2018 fiscal year. Initially targets discretionary spending President Trump’s first budget does not touch mandatory spending programs like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. Change from current budget version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"? Cuts $4.3 billion Current 2017 budget: $36 billion Eliminates funding for Community Development Block Grants, cutting $3 billion. Cuts $4.7 billion Current 2017 budget: $22.6 billion Reduces National Forest System land acquisition programs.

Source: Los Angeles Times March 16, 2017 15:41 UTC