Bush Looking at Cutting Domestic Spending
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The White House is telling federal agencies to expect lean budgets next year, with congressional aides and lobbyists saying President Bush appears ready to propose freezing or even slightly cutting overall domestic spending.
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OVERVIEW: In his 2006 budget request of some &#36;2.5 trillion going to Congress on Monday, President Bush will propose holding down growth in defense spending and cutting dollars for some domestic programs to cope with large deficits.
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In the State of the Union speech, President Bush will announce that he will veto spending bills unless they halve the amount of money earmarked for lawmakersâ pet projects.
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President Bush said on Wednesday  that his fiscal 2006 budget would slash or eliminate more than  150 government programs, and hold spending growth for many  other programs at below the rate of inflation.
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The record $3.1 trillion budget proposed by President Bush on Monday would produce eyepopping federal deficits, despite his attempts to impose politically wrenching curbs on Medicare and eliminate scores of popular domestic programs.
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President Bush said on Thursday he  would work to convince Congress of the need for spending cuts,  tax cuts and Social Security reform in a bid to reassure  financial markets he is determined to address huge fiscal  problems.
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President Bush said Saturday that his administration will outline a series of changes that would clamp down on the common Capitol Hill practice of slipping pet projects into spending bills.
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President George W. Bush said on  Saturday his upcoming budget proposal would emphasize restraint  on domestic spending while making defense and war costs for  Iraq and Afghanistan the top priority.
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President George W. Bush would like to see a package of tax cuts and other measures totaling around $140 billion to shore up the fragile U.S. economy, a White House document showed on Friday.
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President George W. Bush on Monday proposed more than $700 billion in new spending for the U.S. military -- much of it for the Iraq war -- in a budget that would curb domestic programs from health to education.
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George W. Bush is now portraying himself as a fiscal conservative as he heads into a spending battle with Democrats.
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Trimming bulging deficits that threaten the US economy should be a priority for a second-term Bush administration, analysts say, but a commitment to a tax-cutting agenda may thwart the effort.
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President Bush on Monday proposed a &#36;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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President Bush proposed a &#36;2.57 trillion budget Monday that would erase scores of programs and slice Medicaid, disabled housing and many more but still worsen federal deficits by &#36;42 billion over the next five years.
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President George W Bush asks for sweeping cuts to lower the US deficit as he sends his 2006 budget to Congress.
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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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WASHINGTON -- President Bush sent a $2.90 trillion spending plan to a Democratic-controlled Congress on Monday, proposing a big increase in military spending, including billions more to fight the war in Iraq, while squeezing the rest of government to meet his goal of eliminating the deficit in five...