Budget Programs Facing Cuts, Elimination
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Here are the 154 programs that President Bush wants to eliminate or cut in his 2006 budget proposal. Bush would terminate 99 programs and make major spending reductions in 55. Separately, the administration listed eight major reforms Bush proposed that also would produce spending cuts.
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Measures to tackle rising public health problems are being scrapped or postponed due to lack of funds, health chiefs say.
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The magnitude of the proposed cuts in federal funds for public broadcasting put forth this week  sent public broadcasters scrambling.
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Almost half of the states may have to choose in the years ahead between their pension obligations and other public programs.
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Depending on whom you ask, the budget that President Bush proposed  last week will save or sink Medicare and Medicaid, two popular programs that, along with Social Security, threaten to swamp the federal budget as the baby-boom generation retires.
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President Bush's budget will propose cuts of up to 40 percent in a &#36;4.7 billion program that disperses development grants to communities across the United States, congressional aides said Wednesday.
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Congress shows a new resolve to shrink programs, but pet projects and hidden agendas collide in one big bill.
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Bloomberg - Feb. 4 (Bloomberg) -- President George W. Bush, in his the final budget, will propose a $3 trillion plan that would freeze or cut Medicare and other domestic programs and will touch off election-year battles with Congress.
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MONDAY, Feb. 5 (HealthDay News) -- President Bush's proposed $2.9 trillion federal budget, unveiled Monday, calls for health care spending cuts, including a major five-year reduction in Medicare expenditures to slow the program's annual growth rate from 6.5 percent to 5.6 percent.
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President Bush on Monday proposed a  $2.57 trillion budget that slashes domestic programs from farm  aid to housing grants for the poor, as he sought to curb budget  deficits that have soared on his watch.
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Bush's $2.5 trillion plan would cut 150 programs. Other costs grow.
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China will selectively reduce spending to help trim its ballooning fiscal deficit, state media reported Monday, citing top economic officials.
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Governor Mitt Romney's recent move to slice $425 million from state spending will hamper the efforts of a program that has helped hundreds of small manufacturers compete, survive, and save thousands of jobs.
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Bush is expected to announce trims in healthcare spending, placing the burden back on fiscally strapped states.
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From fewer Head Start programs to outdated police gear, the proposed federal budget calls for spending cuts close to home.
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Bush's budget request Monday cut funding for renewable energy, but increased spending for science.
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Presidents of both parties talk tough about eliminating unneeded, outdated or wasteful federal programs. But they rarely succeed.