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Biden Announces Budget Proposal in Philly, Calls on Republicans to Release Their Own Plan

Lisa Ferdinando
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Office of the Secretary of Defense Public Affairs

President Joe Biden announced his budget proposal Thursday afternoon at a union Hall in Northeast Philadelphia. WHYY's Tom MacDonald reports, the budget plan arrives while the House is in a high stakes political fight over extending the debt ceiling.

Read the full story here.

(Original air-date: 3/9/23)

WHYY reporter Tom MacDonald is a lifelong Philadelphia-area resident who has worked in the region since the mid-1980s. Tom started in commercial radio covering the MOVE standoff with police for WFIL-AM. He was also City Hall Bureau Chief, covering government and politics for more than a decade, for WWDB-FM.