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The NewsWorthy

Obamas' Portraits, Nanorobots & Chloe Kim - Tuesday, February 13th, 2018

The NewsWorthy

Erica Mandy

News, Daily News, Society & Culture

4.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2018

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

All the news you need to know for Tuesday, February 13th, 2018!

Today: what President Trump's budget proposal says and the two reasons why the former president's portrait is historic.

Plus: nanorobots may cure cancer, Chloe Kim wins the gold and the Peter Rabbit controversy.

 All that and much more in less than 10 minutes!

Award-winning broadcast journalist and former TV news reporter Erica Mandy breaks it all down for you. 

For links to all the stories referenced in today's episode, visit https://www.theNewsWorthy.com and click Episodes.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome, welcome to the newsworthy.

0:06.0

All the day's news in less than 10 minutes.

0:08.2

Fast, fair, fun, and on the go.

0:10.8

Thanks so much for listening.

0:12.4

Today, the president's budget

0:13.6

proposal and the former president's historic portrait plus nano robots

0:18.1

curing cancer. Chloe Kim wins the gold and the Peter Rabbit

0:21.6

controversy.

0:22.6

All that and much more in less than 10 minutes.

0:25.2

I'm Erica Mandy.

0:26.2

Today is Tuesday, February 13th.

0:28.9

You ready?

0:30.1

Let's do this.

0:31.1

We've now seen. Let's do this.

0:38.0

We've now seen President Trump's 4.4 trillion dollar budget plan for next year, and it doesn't try to balance the budget, a trillion dollar deficit would be expected.

0:43.6

Here are some of the proposals with it.

0:45.6

The Hill says it would get rid of funding for some programs and agencies, like public

0:49.7

broadcasting that provides funds to TV and radio like NPR and get rid of some climate

0:54.6

and education programs. It would spend more money on military and less money on

0:59.2

some health programs and food stamps. In fact there's a proposal for some people on food stamps to

1:03.9

actually get a box of food instead. It also lays out a plan to spend on

1:08.5

infrastructure like fixing and building roads and bridges, but it depends a lot more on state and local funds for most of it.

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