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PRESIDENT TRUMP’S BUDGET PLAN
TRUMP/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION
Cuts for poor, more for military Plan cuts food stamps, Medicaid, highway funding, crop insurance, medical research and more By Andrew Taylor and Martin Crutsinger ASSOCIATED PRE SS
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Budget Director Mick Mulvaney speak to the media about President Donald Trump's proposed fiscal 2018 federal budget in the Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington on Tuesday.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump fulfilled a major campaign promise Tuesday, proposing a $4.1 trillion budget plan that would upend Washington in a big way. But he drew rebukes, even from some Republican allies, for the plan's jarring, politically unrealistic cuts to the social safety net for the poor and a broad swath of other domestic programs.
The budget, Trump's first as president, combines his spending plan for the upcoming 2018 fiscal year with a promise to balance government books after a decade, relying on aggressive cuts, a surge in economic growth — and a $2 trillion-plus accounting gimmick. "Through streamlined government, we will drive an economic boom that raises incomes and expands job opportunities for all Americans," Trump declared in his budget Budget continues on A12
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Former CIA Director John Brennan testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, on Tuesday before the House Intelligence Committee Russia Investigation Task Force.
Brennan to Russia: Hands off US election By Eileen Sullivan And Deb Riechmann
H-E-B/ZAPATA LIONS CLUB
VOLUNTEERS DISTRIBUTE DRINKING WATER
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H-E-B and the Zapata Lions Club joined efforts to pass out over 5,000 gallons of drinking water following a devastating storm that disabled a water pump in Zapata. This storm also caused the closing of schools and businesses. Volunteers from all over Zapata helped including the Sheriff’s Department and Fire Department, the Commissioners Court , Zapata Boxing Club, ZHS Leo Club and Lion members.
WASHINGTON — Former CIA Director John Brennan told Congress Tuesday he personally warned Russia last summer against interfering in the U.S. presidential election and was so concerned about Russian contacts with people involved in Donald Trump's campaign that he convened top counterintelligence officials to focus on it. Meanwhile, a Senate committee issued two additional subpoenas to businesses of ousted Trump National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, one of several key figures in the Russia-Trump campaign probe, and sent a letter to his lawyer questioning his basis for claiming a Fifth Amendment right not to provide documents. If there is no response from Flynn, the Senate Intelligence Committee may consider a contempt-of-Congress charge, said Chairman Richard Burr of North Carolina. Tuesday's letter narrowed the scope of the documents the panel is seeking. Flynn had rejected the earlier subpoena for records as being so broad that providing them could make him vulnerable. Former CIA chief Brennan's testimony to the House intelligence committee was the clearest public indication yet of the significance the Russia contacts play in counterintelligence investigations that continue to hang over the White Brennan continues on A12
TEXAS BATHROOM BILL
Some transgender kids fear exposure By Meredith Hoffman A S S OCIAT E D PRE SS
AUSTIN, Texas — Each morning, Joanna Smith's 7year-old son pulls on a T-shirt and shorts, boasts how fast he can tie his sneakers and heads to school. An honor-roll student who loves science and spelling, he often stays after class to run on the playground with his large group of friends. But teachers may soon have to disrupt his routine by revealing a secret: This energetic boy was born a girl. Legislation headed for passage in the Texas Legislature this month could forbid him from using the boys' bathroom and effectively divulge his transgender identi-
ty to classmates. "He would be very embarrassed and ashamed to be outed," said Smith, who plans to pull her child out of school if the measure is adopted. "I worry so much that it would just ruin his life." She spoke on the condition that her son's name would not be used. The measure poses an excruciating dilemma for Texas schools that have quietly agreed at parents' requests to keep secret the birth genders of some students. To comply with state law, teachers might have to send transgender students to the bathroom of their birth gender or to a single-occupancy bathroom, shocking their peers.
The legislation "really boxes in school systems," said Raffi Freedman-Gurspan, a spokeswoman for the national transgender rights organization Trans Equality. A broad bill requiring transgender individuals to use the restroom of their birth-certificate gender passed the Senate but stalled in the House. Supporters revived it late Sunday, advancing a proposal applying only to the state's public schools, which educate about 5.3 million students. That's the second-largest number in the U.S. after California. The final details of the measure are still being worked out. A similar law in North CaroliExposure continues on A12
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In this May 4 photo, Joanna Smith, of Houston, walks her twin first-graders home from school. One of her children is transgender and Smith fears the child's school would be compelled by the state to "out" her child's biological gender should a "bathroom bill" become law.