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And then he came forth with a budget — a trillion dollar cut in Medicaid, $500 billion to Medicare, and $72 billion for the Social Security Disability Fund," Sanders said Feb. 25. The White House trims the original budget line by $146 billion, but then proposes $139 billion for a fund that would cover this for both Medicare and Medicaid, which has a similar physician training provision. Sanders said Trump proposed cuts of $1 trillion to Medicaid, $500 billion to Medicare and $72 billion to the Social Security Disability Fund. While the White House might claim $72 billion in savings from the Social Security Disability Fund, the CBO put the number at about $15 billion.

Among wealthy democracies, the United States ranks toward the bottom, according to Zachary Wendling, principal investigator at the Environmental Performance Index. The United States ranks 88th on exposure to particulate matter, which Geddes called "a really good indicator for health effects from air pollution." "For both drinking water and sanitation, the United States is performing okay in absolute terms, with about 3.3 disability-adjusted life-years lost per 100,000 people from risks due to unsafe drinking water, as compared to 6.4 for unsafe sanitation," Wendling said. The United States has ample room to improve on air quality when it comes to other developed democracies.

Recreational marijuana sales became legal in California on Jan. 1, 2018, marking a major milestone for the state’s cannabis industry and its many customers. Below are some of the other key facts about what’s legal and what’s not -- at least under state law -- in California’s new cannabis landscape. "You cannot consume, smoke, eat, or vape cannabis in public places," according to the state Department of Public Health’s website. It is illegal to take cannabis across state lines, even if you are traveling to another state where cannabis is legal.

Citing an unnamed official, the article said, "It is the assessment of the intelligence community that Russia’s goal here was to favor one candidate over the other, to help Trump get elected." She noted a Jan. 6 statement from Trump in which he said, "I respect the service of our great men and women in the intelligence community." "I think it’s a disgrace, and I say that — and I say that, and that’s something that Nazi Germany would have done and did do." He said that intelligence officials had used Nazi-like tactics against him and belittled the agencies as a whole for their incorrect belief that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.