“In order to get the defense spending, primarily, but all the rest of our priorities funded, we had to give away a lot of stuff that we didn’t want to give away,” Mick Mulvaney, Mr. Trump’s budget director. Nowhere was the dynamic on more vivid display than on Mr. Trump’s cherished proposal to spend tens of billions of dollars on a wall on the nation’s border with Mexico. The measure bars funding for some school choice measures, including private school vouchers, a signature issue for Betsy DeVos, Mr. Trump’s education secretary. Lawmakers also saved pet regional programs that Mr. Trump had targeted for elimination. In his budget blueprint for 2018, Mr. Trump proposed defunding the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Source: New York Times March 22, 2018 23:53 UTC