Trump puts the skinny in his 'skinny budget'
WASHINGTON It's not unusual for a newly minted White House to present what's known as a "skinny budget," a wish list of spending requests for Congress and some basic economic projections.
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State Department reverses visa ban, allows travelers with visas into U.S.: official
WASHINGTON The U.S. State Department will allow people with valid visas into the United States, a department official said on Saturday, in order to comply with an opinion from a federal judge in Seattle barring President Donald Trump's executive action.
"We have reversed the provisional revocation of visas," the State Department official said in a statement. "Those individuals with visas that were not physically canceled may now travel if the visa is otherwise valid."
(Reporting by Yeganeh Torbati and Julia Edwards Ainsley; Editing by Bill Trott)
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