Donald Trump’s budget relies on wild optimism about economic growth

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Vice News - 5/22/2017 - Peter A. McKay - To offset tax cuts, a massive military build-up, and an unwillingness to touch Social Security or Medicare spending, the White House’s plan to balance the federal budget assumes there will be several years of 3 percent growth in the U.S. economy. Economists — at least, those who aren’t on the White House payroll — generally find that assumption rather fanciful. Read more @ https://news.vice.com/story/donald-trum ... mic-growth