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Track-Trump March 16, 2017

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The White House released a budget blueprint which calls for a large increase in military and defense spending and a corresponding decrease in domestic spending, including a 31% funding cut for the Environmental Protection Agency and a 28% cut for the State Department. The proposal, which has attracted bipartisan criticism, lists specific programs to be defunded, including Meals on Wheels and the National Endowment for the Arts. [As the budget is modified and begins to pass congressional hurdles, we will update corresponding pledges on our site.]

The proposed Republican healthcare bill cleared the House Budget Committee today in a vote of 19-17. Three conservative Republicans on the committee, David Brat, Gary Palmer and Mark Sanford, voted against the bill.

Early in the a.m., U.S. District Judge Theodore D. Chuang of Maryland became the second federal judge to enjoin President Trump’s revised executive order restricting travel.

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan and leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee joined a growing number of representatives rejecting President Trump’s claim that he had been wiretapped by former President Obama. White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer continued to defend the position in today’s press briefing.

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