Segments From This Episode

• Penn Station is a drag for commuters and the economy

  by Ryan Kailath

  

  Delays at the train depot ripple through the economy of the entire East Coast, an expert says.

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• The Trump budget’s fuzzy math

  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. Click the audio player above to hear the full story.

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• Is selling half of the US petroleum reserve a good idea?

  by Scott Tong

  The Trump administration in its budget proposes to sell off half of the country’s strategic reserve of crude oil. The idea is that putting more than 300 million barrels of energy onto the market could raise more than $16 billion over the course of a decade. Proponents note that the oil market is more open, […]

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• For advocacy groups, the federal budget is mainly a blueprint for battle

  by Kimberly Adams

  The federal budget released today is pretty much a fantasy document that will be dead on arrival when it gets to Congress, economists say. But even scaled back, proposed budget cuts to Medicaid, food assistance and other programs for the poor are likely to tear a hole in the safety net the likes of which […]

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• Inside Trump’s budget, a big cut for Obamacare’s healthcare.gov

  by Dan Gorenstein

  

  The site where about 10 million people shop for insurance could get harder to navigate.

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• Rural America weighs the economic realities of proposed federal budget cuts

  by Mitchell Hartman

  

  President Trump calls for the USDA to be cut by 21 percent. Rural areas have a lot of federal employment and funding at stake.

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