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    Trump’s Budget Could Hurt Manufacturing and Innovation

    The president’s spending blueprint calls for cuts to federal programs that underpin technology breakthrough and support jobs.
    by Clare Foran Mar 16, 2017 3 minutes
    Source: Joshua Roberts / Reuters

    Donald Trump won the White House after promising to bring back jobs to the United States and revive American manufacturing. But the president's budget blueprint, released on Thursday, calls for federal funding cuts that could set back scientific and technological breakthroughs that spur innovation and create jobs as well as jeopardize, or even eliminate entirely, government programs designed to support American manufacturing.

    The Department of Energy is one of the agencies that would be impacted by cuts. It would sustain of roughly $1.7 billion, and

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