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WASHINGTON 鈥?The White House top budget official acknowledged Tuesday that the federal deficit is ballooning to $1.1 trillion alongside the Republican tax plan but vowed the fiscal picture would improve as a result of projected economic growth.Russ Vought, acting director of the Office of Management and Budget, was grilled by the House Budget Committee about the high deficits and deep spending cuts in President Donald Trump proposed $4.7 trillion budget.Vought acknowledged the tax cut had contributed to higher deficits, but he praised the corporate rate reduction central to MAGAnomics 鈥?the administration
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Updated 11:30 a.m. ET | The first comprehensive investigative report on the disaster at Upper Big Branch Mine in West Virginia last year, which killed 29 miners, finds that the explosion could have been prevented and was the result of a corporate culture at the mine in which wrongdoing became acceptable, where deviation became the norm. The 130-page report released Thursday found that the explosion was the result of a long series of failures of basic safety systems to protect the lives of miners at Massey Energy, which owned the mine. The investigation, which was conducted for the state of West Virginia by former federal mine safety chief J. Davitt McAteer and an independent team of seven others, said the company had a ventilation system that did not adeq
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