The president’s budget proposal includes a wide range of initiatives that might reduce gun death and injury – not all of them focused on guns or gun controlBarack Obama’s $4.1tn budget for 2017 includes funding for a wide variety of gun violence prevention measures,from increased mental health spending to grants for innovative policing programs and funding to support the nation’s background check system for gun sales.
Whether the US president’s proposed budget will amount to much more than a progressive wish list is unclear. Breaking with precedent, Congressional Republicans hold announced they will not even listen to testimony from the president’s budget director this year.
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Source: theguardian.com