Bush's budget cuts would fall near Main Street
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From fewer Head Start programs to outdated police gear, the proposed federal budget calls for spending cuts close to home.
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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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President Bush may be pushing hard for Congress to give him line-item veto power to remove wasteful spending from the bills it passes, but the idea seems to be sinking on Capitol Hill.
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President George W. 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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President George W. Bush will on Monday unveil a $3 trillion budget that likely will spark anew the wrangling between the White House and the Democratic-led Congress over Iraq war funding, tax cuts and the sagging economy.
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US President George W. Bush plans to cut spending in his upcoming budget, not just trim the rate of growth in government outlays, Treasury Secretary John Snow said Sunday.
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U.S. President George W. Bush's fiscal 2009 budget proposal released on Monday takes into account that the U.S. economy is facing a slowdown, the White House said.
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One guiding star in the &#36;2.5 trillion budget that President Bush ships Congress next month will be his goal of cutting the federal deficit in half by 2009.
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Senior officers warn a looming Â£350m budget shortfall could bring a reduction in the number of police on the beat.
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WASHINGTON -- The nation's budget deficit will drop to $205 billion in the fiscal year that ends in September, less than half of what it was at its peak in 2004, according to new White House estimates.
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The budget that President Bush will submit to Congress today shows the federal deficit falling in each of the next four years and would produce a $61 billion surplus in 2012, administration officials said. But to get there, Bush is counting on strong economic growth, diminishing costs in the Iraq...
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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 &#36;2.5 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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By Julie Sevrens Lyons, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Feb. 6--After years of job cuts and budget woes at NASA/Ames Research Center in Mountain View, center officials weren't exactly doing a jig Monday after President Bush released his proposed 2008 budget for the space agency.
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The fate of President Bush's domestic agenda rests, in many ways, with Bill Frist, the Senate majority leader.
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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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On a cash-raising trip for Republicans, President Bush said Thursday that Americans will have less money in their pockets if Democrats win control of Congress.