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>>> President Donald Trump suggests
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spending on infrastructure was not
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Tuesday, February 13, 2018
Associated Press
James Knable helps unpack copies of President Donald Trump’s fiscal year 2019 budget after it arrived Monday at the
House Budget Committee office on Capitol Hill in Washington.
President’s budget balloons
deficits, cuts social safety net
By ANDREW TAYLOR
and MARTIN CRUTSINGER
Associated Press
WASHINGTON —
President Donald Trump
unveiled a $4.4 trillion budget
plan Monday that envisions
steep cuts to America’s social
safety net but mounting
spending on
the military,
formally retreating
from last
year’s promises
to balance the
federal budget.
The president’s
spending outline for
the first time acknowledges
the Republican tax overhaul
passed last year would
add billions to the deficit
and not “pay for itself” as
Trump and his GOP allies
asserted. If enacted as proposed,
though no presidential
budget ever is, the plan
would establish an era of $1
trillion-plus yearly deficits.
The open embrace of red
ink is a remarkable public
reversal for Trump and his
party, which spent years
objecting to former President
Barack Obama’s increased
Measures related to missile attacks advance
By MICHAEL BRESTOVANSKY
Hawaii Tribune-Herald
Hawaii lawmakers are
pursuing legislation that
would update the state’s
disaster preparedness protocols
after the false ballistic
missile alert last month.
House Bill 2582, which
was introduced late last
month, would establish a
Hawaii disaster preparedness
task force to review current
disaster management protocols
and recommend wide-sweeping
changes, if necessary.
“The Legislature finds
that the Hawaii Emergency
Management Agency’s
broadcast of
a false alert
of an inbound
ballistic missile
on January 13,
2018, and the
amount of time
it took the state
to cancel the false alert is
unacceptable,” the bill states.
State Rep.
Richard
Creagan,
D-Naalehu,
Ocean View,
Captain Cook,
Kealakekua,
Kailua-Kona,
one of the bill’s supporters,
said that while the
missile alert “got a lot of
people thinking” about
disaster protocols, hurricanes
remain the primary
disaster for which Hawaii
residents should prepare.
Creagan also supports
House Bill 2452, which
CREAGAN FARIAS
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TRUMP
Efforts
to reach
new deal
continue
By TOM CALLIS
Hawaii Tribune-Herald
Hawaii County and Hawaiian
Earth Recycling continue to hammer
out the details of a new agreement
after Mayor Harry Kim nixed plans
to build a composting facility in
a quarry near the Hilo landfill.
In a Feb. 7 letter to a County
Council committee, Corporation
Counsel Joe
Kamelamela said
a draft of a final
modified agreement
was sent to the company
and it could
take at least another
two months for that
to be finished.
The legal back-andforth
follows Kim’s
decision to terminate
the contract, an action
he later rescinded
when the company
agreed to make revisions,
last year because of concerns
with costs and location of the $10.3
million facility. Panaewa residents
objected to that spot because it’s
close to some of the home lots.
The county and HER have since
made two supplemental agreements
addressing the search for a
new location and changes in the
cost of producing mulch and compost,
which the county said would
shave $1.5 million off the original
10-year deal in terms of operations.
But the move has also
resulted in costs.
A second supplemental agreement
reached last October says
the county agrees to pay HER
$277,982.98 for legal costs incurred
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