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GREENPORT — Twin County residents acted as members of Congress on Tuesday when they tried to balance the federal budget as part of an exercise hosted in part by U.S. Rep. Antonio Delgado, D-19.

HUDSON – With President Donald Trump presenting a $4.75 trillion 2020 fiscal budget, Congressman Antonio Delgado is looking to hear from his constituents on what they want to see in that budget.

Opponents of adding to the national debt say President Trump's plan to balance the federal budget in 15 years is unserious and that he remains on track to add as much debt as former President Obama, whom Trump once accused

U.S. Rep. Antonio Delgado, D-19, will employ a unique role-playing method to introduce President Donald Trump’s record-setting $4 trillion federal budget proposal and dramatize what it could mean to taxpayers at Columbia-Greene Community College on Tuesday.

Although the tax and spending suggestions in President Trump’s new budget have received most of the attention, the unrealistic nature of his projections on economic growth must be kept in mind as Congress begins working on plans for Fiscal 2020.

During the latest “Economist Mom” segment on Facing the Future, Diane Lim said that President Trump’s proposed budget is not likely to spark needed fiscal reform efforts.

“It’s always the duty of the president and the Treasury secretary to defend full faith and credit of the United States,” said Robert Bixby, the executive director the Concord Coalition, a fiscal watchdog group.

Fiscal responsibility advocate Bob Bixby on Tuesday told Hill.TV that President Trump's proposed 2020 budget is "unrealistic." 

Congress and the administration have a lot of work to do in protecting taxpayer dollars, judging from a new report from the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) on programs that it considers at “high risk” for waste, frau

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