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Reorganization Focused on the Safety Net

FILE — Mick Mulvaney, the Trump administration’s budget director, speaks to reporters at the White House in Washington, Jan. 19, 2018. Mulvaney is the architect of a planned reorganization of the federal government that would see many social safety net programs shunted into a new mega-department that would include the word “Welfare” in the title, where they would be easier to cut. (Al Drago/The New York Times)