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Trump says the first lady is ‘doing great.’ She hasn’t been seen in public for two weeks.
by Emily HeilMay 25 at 11:30 AM
First lady Melania Trump, who spent five nights in the hospital following a kidney procedure, has been out of public view for 15 days running — an unusually long absence even for a first lady who relishes life outside the spotlight.
The first lady was last seen on May 10 standing alongside her husband at Andrews Air Force Base as the couple greeted three Americans who had been released from prison in North Korea. On May 14, the White House announced that she had undergone an successful embolization procedure at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center to treat a benign kidney condition.
Although medical experts have said the kind of procedure Melania Trump had typically requires only a night’s hospitalization, White House and East Wing aides have said nothing more about the first lady’s condition and instead asked for privacy.
This week her office did not say when she planned to resume public events, but says she has been holding meetings with her staff. “We’ve had several internal staff meetings in the past week around a variety of topics, including her initiatives,” Stephanie Grisham, the first lady’s spokeswoman said in an email.
Still there is an air of mystery. Friday morning, a reporter shouted a question to the president about a his wife’s whereabouts as he prepared to board Marine One to attend the Naval Academy commencement.
According to a pool report, Trump responded by pointing to a window in the White House residence, and said: “She’s doing great. She’s looking at us right there.”
Reporters turned to look at the spot he indicated, but there was no sign of the first lady.
There are few other clues about her movements. Longtime friend Paolo Zampolli says he’s exchanged several text messages with Melania Trump since her return from the hospital.
“She seems to be recovering well,” he said, though he offered no further details.
The first lady has tweeted a few times in the past two weeks, including a thank-you to the hospital staff and a recognition of Medal of Honor recipient Britt Slabinski, a Navy SEAL who oversaw a daring rescue mission in Afghanistan. President Trump presented Slabinski with the medal Thursday at a White House ceremony that the first lady did not attend.
Melania Trump’s prolonged absence from public life comes just as she was posed to take on a more prominent role.
Earlier this month, the first lady had launched her long-awaited signature initiative, “Be Best,” which she described as a wide-ranging effort aimed at helping children.
[Melania Trump plans to bring attention to the problems children face]
“I will make every effort to ‘be best’ at championing the many successful well-being programs in existence today that teach the tools and skills for emotional, social, and physical well-being,” she said during a Rose Garden speech in which she outlined plans including meeting with tech executives about children's’ online habits.
In her absence, others have stepped in to perform the duties that traditionally fall to the president’s spouse. On May 22, Karen Pence, the wife of Vice President Pence, accompanied the South Korean president’s wife, Kim Jung-sook, on a tour of a historic home near the White House.
“Wonderful visit with Mrs. Kim Jung-sook, the First Lady of the Republic of Korea,” Karen Pence tweeted alongside pictures of the two women. “We toured the beautiful and historic Decatur House . . . and enjoyed a lovely lunch.”
Melania Trump has also not been present for several other White House events that first ladies usually attend. On Wednesday, White House Social Media Director Dan Scavino posted photos of a meeting in the Oval Office with some of the service members the president had met while visiting his wife in the military hospital where she had undergone surgery.
“He told them that when they got out, to come visit him at the @WhiteHouseanytime,” Scavino wrote.
Melania Trump was not shown in the photos.
Even Nunes hit theNo Republicans who were in on that meeting made a peep in the media.........
Trump may be gone sooner than later but I won't hold my breath
Congressional Budget Office’s Long-Term Deficit Forecast Dwarfs White House Estimate
Congressional Budget Office’s Long-Term Deficit Forecast Dwarfs White House Estimate
Trump administration’s policies are projected to generate lower revenues over the next decade after tax cut signed in December
Harriet TorryUpdated May 24, 2018 6:05 p.m. ET
The Congressional Budget Office forecast that the tax cut President Donald Trump signed into law in December, along with differing economic forecasts, would lead to lower revenues relative to the office’s baseline over the next decade. Photo: Mike Theiler/Bloomberg News
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Harriet Torry
WASHINGTON—The Congressional Budget Office estimates the government will take in $1.9 trillion less in revenue and spend $300 billion more over the next decade than the White House estimated under its latest budget proposal if the plan were enacted.
President Donald Trump in February proposed a $4.4 trillion budget that would boost federal spending for the military and border security, cut many domestic programs and projected deficits through the next decade. The proposal depends heavily on cuts to government safety-net programs and expectations of a big gain in economic growth.
Deficits would total $9.5 trillion over the coming decade, or $2.3 trillion more than the White House estimates, CBO said Thursday in an analysis of the President’s Budget.
According to CBO, Congress’s nonpartisan scorekeeper, the budget proposal will result in deficits in fiscal 2019 and 2020 that are slightly narrower than White House predictions, but deficits in 2027 and 2028 that are more than twice the White House’s estimates.
The main reason for the discrepancy between CBO’s and the White House’s analysis is a mismatch between their expectations of how the economy will perform.
“In particular, CBO projects wages and salaries after 2021 that are between 1% and 9% lower than the administration estimates,” the report said, adding that as a result, CBO’s estimates for revenues from individual income and payroll taxes are $1.2 trillion lower from 2019 to 2028 compared with the Trump administration.
Taken together, the CBO’s revenue estimates, based off the budget for the next decade, are 4% lower than the administration’s, and its spending projections are 1% higher. CBO’s estimate of net interest spending from fiscal 2019 to 2028 exceeds the administration’s by $417 billion, which it attributed to the higher cost of financing the cumulative deficits and higher projected interest rates.
According to the CBO’s estimate of the President’s Budget, the federal deficit would narrow from 3.9% of gross domestic product in the 2018 fiscal year to 3.6% of GDP in 2028. That would take the debt held by the public from 78% of GDP in the current fiscal year to 86% of GDP in 2028.
“The President’s Budget, including his pro-growth policies and deregulation efforts that the CBO doesn’t account for, will help boost the economy, create American jobs and generate the long-term growth necessary to help put our fiscal house back in order,” a senior OMB official said in an emailed statement.
Michael Peterson, president of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, a nonpartisan group that advocates deficit reduction, said the CBO’s analysis find that “the president’s proposals would make no significant improvement to our fiscal situation and rely heavily on unlikely spending cuts.”
”Under the president’s priorities, interest would remain the fastest-growing budget category, and our national debt would continue its upward trajectory,” he added.
Congress in December enacted corporate and individual tax cuts and in February approved a two-year budget deal, followed by a spending bill that boosted government outlays this year on both domestic and military programs.
The CBO’s analysis didn’t incorporate the macroeconomic effects of the president’s proposals “because of the analytical challenges created by the recent enactment of major legislation and the limited time available since then,” it said.
Mr. Trump’s latest budget assumes the economy can grow at a much stronger pace than independent forecasters expect. It projects the economy will grow about 3% annually over the coming decade, with output growth rising 3.2% next year before declining to 3% in 2021 and 2.8% by 2026—implying more federal revenue and less spending on safety-net programs like unemployment insurance.
Last month, the CBO predicted economic output—assuming no changes in current law—would expand 3.3% in the fourth quarter of 2018 from a year earlier. Annual growth, it estimated, would slow in subsequent years: 2.4% in 2019; 1.8% in 2020; 1.5% in 2021 and 2022; and 1.7% in 2023 through 2028.
Federal Reserve officials estimate the economy will grow about 2.7% this year, 2.4% in 2019 and 1.8% over the long run.
Corrections & Amplifications
The U.S. government’s fiscal year begins Oct. 1. An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated the year begins Sept. 30. (May 24, 2018)
Write to Harriet Torry at harriet.torry@wsj.com
It's over.
Rethugs should never be able to live this down. They are so abysmal at governing but this is just negligence at this point.
