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Good morning. I'm James technicians.

Good morning. I'm James Holman from the Washington Post, and this is the Daily

202 for Monday, November 26th.

In today's news, the US fires tear gas at protesters, including children across the Mexican

border.

George Papadopoulos must report to prison today,

and the Russian military is moving against Ukraine.

But first, the big idea.

President Trump is demanding top advisors craft a plan to reduce the country's ballooning budget deficits, but he has flummoxed his own aides by repeatedly seeking new spending while ruling out measures

needed to address the country's unbalanced budget.

In total, government debt has risen roughly $2 trillion since Trump took office, and the federal government now owes

21.7 trillion to creditors. The President's agenda has contributed to that increase and is

projected to continue to do so, both through those

GOP tax cuts and with bipartisan spending increases. Several current and

former senior administration officials tell Josh Dossi and Damien Paletta that the deficit issue is rarely brought up in Trump's presence because the president has no genuine interest in discussing it. For example, when former National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn's staffers prepared a presentation for Trump about deficits,

Cohn told them to throw it in the trash.

It wouldn't be necessary he explained because the president

doesn't care about deficits. Trump also repeatedly told cone to instruct the

US government to just print more money. One former senior administration official described the

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