Bush Plan Would Up Defense, Cut Farm Funds
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President Bush will propose a nearly 5 percent increase for next year's defense spending while calling for cuts in payments to farmers and work on a nuclear waste storage site in Nevada, according to documents and federal officials.
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Bush's $2.5 trillion plan would cut 150 programs. Other costs grow.
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With the GOP united, President Bush is poised to get the war funding he wants.
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President George W. Bush on Monday proposed more than $700 billion in new spending for the military -- much of it for the Iraq war -- in a budget that would restrain domestic programs from health to education.
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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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President Bush said on Saturday that his upcoming budget proposal would emphasize restraint on domestic spending while putting defense and war costs for Iraq and Afghanistan as the top priority.
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Security and family values are fertile issues in the farmlands of Pennsylvania, and ones that Republicans hope will swing this key state, and maybe the White House, for President George W. Bush.
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By DIRK LAMMERS SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - President Bush's proposed budget would put a land conservation program that protects some 35 million acres on hold in favor of boosting corn production to meet the growing demand for ethanol.
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President Bush is making a renewed push to allow the government to spend food aid money to buy crops in poor countries. Congress is unlikely to go along.
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President Bush will ask Congress for &#36;419.3 billion for the Pentagon for next year, 4.8 percent more than this year's spending, as the administration seeks to beef up and reshape the Army and Marine Corps for fighting terrorism.
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The White House plans to shift $3.2 billion in defense spending -- partly from new weapons like the Lockheed Martin Corp. F-35 Joint Strike Fighter -- to support troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, a trade publication reported on Monday.
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The Bush administration&#39;s plans to divert $3.46 billion in Iraq reconstruction funds for security could increase dangers in the long run
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President Bush sent to Congress a $2.9 trillion budget plan that would dramatically increase military spending -- including an extra $245 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan -- but squeeze federal health care programs and most domestic agencies to achieve his goal of eliminating the deficit...
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The Bush administration on Monday proposed boosting funding to better protect the food supply, including opening an office in China.
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WASHINGTON -- President Bush plans to send Congress a request early next year to finance wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and operations against terrorism that could total $75 billion, congressional aides said yesterday.
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President Bush will aim his budget  knife at domestic programs from housing to farm subsidies as he  seeks to persuade Wall Street and his fiscal conservative base  he is serious about curbing budget deficits, which have  ballooned on his watch.
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The &#36;419 billion defense budget that President Bush submitted to Congress on Monday would buy fewer planes, ships and submarines than the Pentagon previously planned, but it puts extra emphasis on anti-terror commandos and expands the Army and Marine Corps.