President Donald Trump would dramatically reduce the U.S.government’s role in society with $3.6 trillion in spending cutsover the next 10 years in a budget plan that shrinks the safety netfor the poor, recent college graduates and farmers.

Trump’s proposal, to be released Tuesday, claims to balance thebudget within a decade. But it relies on a tax plan for which theadministration has provided precious little detail, the eliminationof programs backed by many Republican lawmakers, and heavy use ofaccounting gimmicks.

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