May 22, 2017
Good morning from Washington, where the Trump administration will release a long-term budget proposal while the president is on his trip to the Middle East and Europe. Fred Lucas reports on why Medicaid reform is expected to be part of that plan, and highlights Trump's speech to Arab leaders calling for the defeat of radical Islam's "foot soldiers of evil." You won't believe why the government denies funds to a program aiding homeless families. Watch Kelsey Harkness' video. Plus: a court order undoing that registry of drone owners, and a bill to restore sensible financial regulations.
Over the past 17 years, Solutions for Change has gotten 1,200 families off government assistance and back on their feet.
About 11.5 million able-bodied adults are on Medicaid, according to government data.
President Trump noted some estimates show 95 percent of victims of terrorism are Muslims.
Hobbyists who fly drones had faced up to $277,500 in fines, plus jail time, merely for failing to identify themselves to the government.
Dodd-Frank is the reason behind the decline in availability of free checking accounts.
"I feel as though I've just had a college course in current and past events of this region," Doris McClellan writes of Nolan Peterson's reporting.
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