When confronted with the reality that Trump has “added $2 trillion—more than $2 trillion—to the national debt” by reporter Jonathan Karl, Vought chose to re-write history, claiming Trump “came into office and had an economic recovery that was needed to put people back to work, get the economy going.” That, of course, was just one of the many Orwellian horror-show moments of the day; Vought also stood at the podium and claimed the president is keeping his promise not to touch Medicare and Social Security, while discussing a budget that . . . cuts roughly three-quarters of a trillion dollars from both programs.

Senator Chuck Schumer called the budget proposal “a gut-punch to the American middle class,” adding that the cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security, “as well as numerous other middle-class programs, are devastating, but not surprising.” Senator Patrick Leahy described the plan as “divorced from reality” and “not worth the paper it is printed on,” which may actually be too kind.

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UBS has a pregnancy problem

As in, the Swiss bank can’t (allegedly) stop using female employees’ maternity leaves as a reason to “impose long-term cuts to their bonuses” and calling stuff like having a child a “lifestyle choice” women should have to pay for:

Some have resigned in frustration—forgoing promotions in at least two cases—while others having begrudgingly continued working for less pay than before they became mothers, according to several current and former UBS employees.

One woman had her bonus reduced and re-based four times after having had four children. Another was informed that being a working mother was a “lifestyle choice” by means of explanation for her lower bonus, while someone else was told to “focus on her baby” when she challenged the policy.

According to the Financial Times, more than a dozen women in the bank’s wealth-management unit have complained about the treatment they’ve received for taking time off to have kids, “which in many cases resulted in their bonuses being cut 30 percent or more.” In a statement, UBS global head of diversity and inclusion Carolanne Minashi said, “It is extremely important to us that employees with similar roles, performance and experience are rewarded equally and fairly. We approach the issue of parental leave proactively and systematically during the reward process to determine whether there are gaps and to close those gaps if we find any.”

The new Wells Fargo is pretty much the same as the old Wells Fargo