Federal budget proposal will spare entitlements, WSJ reports

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President Obama’s budget proposal Monday will leave the Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security programs largely unchanged, though will offer a slew of other measures to trim the federal budget deficit, the Wall Street Journal reports. The three programs represent an increasingly growing share of the federal budget.

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