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The Trump budget’s fuzzy math

Sabri Ben-Achour May 23, 2017
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The Trump budget’s fuzzy math

Sabri Ben-Achour May 23, 2017
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The Trump administration’s budget proposal is coming under fire from economists and tax experts who say it uses some math that just doesn’t add up. In short, there’s a roving $2 trillion in it that nobody can really explain.

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