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Here's where Trump wants to cut the government

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President Trump on Monday proposed a fiscal year 2020 budget plan that would boost federal funding for a handful of favored agencies, but cut most others in a bid to slow the rate of growth of the federal government.

Trump proposed increases for the Departments of Commerce (up 9.3 percent), Defense (up 5 percent), Homeland Security (up 7.8 percent), and Veterans Affairs (up 7.5 percent), as well as NASA and the Small Business Administration.

Others see much more dramatic cuts, according to the budget the House Democrats have already said will go no where in the House. Here are the departments that would see the most significant cuts under Trump's plan:

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