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Lawmakers push agency heads over budget requests

Two top administration officials faced tough crowds on Capitol Hill at hearings about President Donald Trump’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2018.

The Department of Energy’s Rick Perry and Francis Collins of the National Institutes of Health testified at separate Senate hearings.

Perry was tasked with explaining a 17 percent cut to the budget of the DOE’s office of science, taking it to just under $4.5 billion.

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