Newsmaker panel slates examination of Trump budget, March 17

The framework for President Donald Trump's first federal budget proposal is expected to be released this Thursday. The following day, on March 17, the National Press Club is presenting a panel of federal budget experts to discuss the proposal at a National Press Club Newsmaker at 10 a.m., in the Club's Conference Rooms.

This news conference is open to credentialed media and Club members, free of charge. No advance registration is required.

The panel is expected to include:

Stan Collender, executive vice president of Qorvis MSLGROUP, has worked for both the House and Senate Budget Committees and is the author of "The Guide to the Federal Budget." He wrote the popular “Fiscal Fitness” column for Roll Call and “Budget Battles” for National Journal.

G. William Hoagland, senior vice president of the Bipartisan Policy Center, spent 25 years on the staff of the U.S. Senate including 4 years as director of budget and appropriations for Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and 21 years as a statff member and director of the Senate Budget Committee reporting to former Sen. Pete V. Domenici, R-New Mexico.

Jim Dyer, a principal at the Podesta Group, served under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush as Deputy Assistant for Legislative Affairs. He spent 13 years as the staff director and clerk on the House Appropriations Committee and handled legislative affairs for the State Department and served as a budget consultant to the Secretary of the Navy.

Bob Greenstein, president and founder of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a nonpartisan policy institute in Washington that works on federal and state budget and tax policy and on programs and policies affecting people with low or modest incomes.

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