SPORTS | B1 LOCAL | A3 MOUNT DORA BEEFY THE OVERCOMES PUG STOPS IN EARLY DEFICIT TO CLERMONT ON HIS BEAT LEESBURG FAREWELL TOUR Tuesday, March 12, 2019 YOUR LOCAL SOURCE FOR LAKE & SUMTER COUNTIES @dailycommercial Facebook.com/daily.commercial 75¢ Highlights ‘Budget for Better America’ of Trump’s $4.7 trillion budget request President Donald Trump’s $4.7 trillion budget request pro- poses steep cuts to domestic spending, a funding boost for the Pentagon and $8.6 billion for his signature border wall with Mexico. Leading Demo- crats immediately rejected the plan, signaling another bruising fi ght just weeks after a standoff that led to a 35-day partial government shutdown, the longest in U.S. history. A look at the highlights from the White House proposal. BORDER WALL FIGHT RENEWED Trump’s proposal for the fi scal year that begins Oct. 1 includes $8.6 billion to build the U.S-Mexico border wall. The proposal shows Trump is eager to renew his confrontation with Congress over the wall, Acting Offi ce of Management and Budget director Russ Vought speaks during the daily press briefi ng at the White House on Monday in a centerpiece of his agenda Washington. [AP PHOTO/ EVAN VUCCI] that congressional Democrats have staunchly resisted. The budget request for more than President’s record $4.7 trillion budget relies on strong growth 300 miles of new border wall See HIGHLIGHTS, A5 ByLisa Mascaro AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump proposed a record $4.7 tril- lion federal budget for 2020 on Monday, relying on opti- mistic 3.1 percent economic growth projections along- side accounting shuffles and steep domestic cuts to bring future spending into prom- ised balance in 15 years. SPORTS | B1 The deficit is projected to hit $1.1 trillion in the 2020 THE NEXT fiscal year, the highest in a decade. The administra- LEVEL: TACKO tion is counting on robust growth, including from the FALL SPARKS Republican tax cuts — which Trump wants to make per- SURGE FOR UCF manent — to push down the red ink. Some economists, HOOPS though, say the bump from A construction worker replaces fencing lining the north side of the border wall separating San Diego the tax cuts is waning, and from Tijuana, Mexico, on Monday. President Donald Trump is reviving his border wall fi ght, preparing a they project slower growth in new budget that will seek $8.6 billion for the U.S-Mexico barrier while imposing steep spending cuts to coming years. The national other domestic programs and setting the stage for another fi scal battle. [AP PHOTO/GREGORY BULL] debt is $22 trillion. Even with his own projec- “an economic miracle.” He century.” Congress over priorities, May holds tions, Trump’s budget would said in a letter to Congress Presidential budgets tend including his push for $8.6 not come into balance for a accompanying the plan to be seen as aspirational billion to build the U.S-Mex- last-ditch decade and a half, rather that the country’s next step blueprints, rarely becoming ico border wall. than the traditional hope of must be “turbocharging the enacted policy, and Trump’s Titled “A Budget for a Brexit talks balancing in 10. industries of the future and proposal for the new fiscal Better America: Promises Still, Trump contended establishing a new stan- year, which begins Oct. 1, with EU the nation is experiencing dard of living for the 21st sets up a showdown with See BUDGET, A5 before vote By Jill Lawless and Raf Casert Eustis’ Cobb Commerce Park drawing interest The Associated Press LONDON — Prime Minister By Roxanne Brown with husband Jerry Cobb, A sign Theresa May scrambled to win roxanne.brown is developing the park next sits at the last-minute changes from the @dailycommercial.com door and said Monday they entrance of European Union to her Brexit believe the inquiries they’ve the future deal Monday, a day before a EUSTIS – The Cobb gotten from prospective Cobb Com- crucial vote in Britain’s Par- Commerce Park in Eustis, buyers will soon result in merce Park liament that could derail the approved by the Eustis City additional sales. on County country’s withdrawal from Commission last year, is According to city records, Road 44 the EU — and cost May her job. beginning to show signs of the property, divided into in Eustis. 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A10 Classified ...................B7 63° / 82° 64° / 81° 64° / 85° A2 Tuesday, March 12, 2019 | DailyCommercial.com NATION&WORLD IN BRIEF SANAA, YEMEN Yemeni tribesmen: 22 civilians Boeing jet under killed in country’s north Local tribesmen say air- strikes by the Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemen’s Houthi rebels have killed 22 scrutiny after crash people, including children, in the country’s north. The Health Ministry By Elias Meseret affiliated with the Houthis and Yidnek Kirubel confirmed the deaths on The Associated Press Monday, saying that all those killed were from two families HEJERE, Ethiopia — Air- from the Maghrabet Talan lines in Ethiopia, China, district in Hajjah province. Indonesia and elsewhere The tribesmen spoke on grounded the Boeing 737 condition of anonymity for Max 8 jetliner Monday after fear of reprisals. the second devastating crash For almost two months, the of one of the planes in five Houthis have been besieging months. But Boeing said it and shelling the mountainous had no reason to pull the area of Kusher to suppress a popular aircraft from the rebellion there by the Hajor skies. tribes. Scores of civilians have As the East African coun- been killed and wounded. try mourned the 157 victims of the Ethiopian Airlines MONTGOMERY, ALA. plane that went down in Execution date set for inmate clear weather shortly after convicted of preacher’s death takeoff Sunday, investiga- tors found the jetliner’s two Alabama has set an exe- flight recorders at the crash cution date for an inmate site outside the capital of convicted of killing a preacher Addis Ababa. in a robbery more than two An airline official, how- decades ago. ever, said one of the Christopher Lee Price is recorders was partially dam- Workers gather at the scene of an Ethiopian Airlines fl ight crash Monday near Bishoftu, or Debre Zeit, scheduled to be put to death aged and “we will see what south of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. A spokesman says Ethiopian Airlines has grounded all its Boeing 737 on April 11, according to an we can retrieve from it.” Max 8 aircraft as a safety precaution, following the crash of one of its planes in which 157 people were order from the state Supreme The official spoke on condi- killed. [MULUGETA AYENE/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS] Court. tion of anonymity for lack of Price was convicted of the authorization to speak to the passengers and crew” on the you know, they are very maintenance was on Feb. 4, 1991 stabbing death of Bill media. jetliner. distressed,” he said. “They and it had flown just 1,200 Lynn, who was pastor of the A witness to the crash told Among the airlines still are in shock like we are. They hours. Natural Springs Church of The Associated Press that using the plane are South- are grieving.” China’s Civil Aviation Christ. smoke was coming from the west, American and Air In Addis Ababa, members Administration said that it Lynn was killed with a rear of the plane before it hit Canada. of an association of Ethio- ordered airlines to ground sword and knife during a rob- the ground. In Washington, Transpor- pian airline pilots wept all 737 Max 8 aircraft as of 6 bery at his home on Dec. 22, “Before falling down, the tation Secretary Elaine L. uncontrollably for their dead p.m. (1000 GMT) Monday, 1991. plane rotated two times Chao said passenger safety colleagues. Framed photos in line with the principle of Prosecutors said Lynn was in the air, and it had some was the first priority for the of seven crew members sat “zero tolerance for security at home with his wife assem- smoke coming from the back administration. in chairs at the front of a risks.” bling Christmas presents then, it hit the ground and “I want travelers to be crowded room. It said it would issue fur- when the power was cut to exploded,” Tamrat Abera assured and that we are The flight’s main pilot, ther notices after consulting their home. said. “When the villagers and taking this seriously and Yared Getachew, issued a with the U.S. Federal Avia- I arrived at the site, there was monitoring latest develop- distress call shortly after tion Administration and JERUSALEM nothing except some burning ments,” she said. takeoff and was told to Boeing. Israeli AG to release Netanyahu and flesh.” It’s unusual for authorities return, but all contact was China Southern Airlines is evidence after elections Ethiopian authorities are to take the step of grounding lost. one of Boeing’s biggest cus- leading the investigation planes, and it’s up to each Canada, Ethiopia, the U.S., tomers for the aircraft.