Bush unveils record $3.1 trillion budget
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Â· Military spending to hit highest level since WWIIÂ· Plans will leave successor with spending headache
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The federal deficit of the US government hit a record high of 436.9 billion US dollars in the first 11 months of fiscal year of 2004 which will end in this month, the Treasury Department reported on Monday.
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In his new budget, the president has requested money for thousands of items similar to the pet projects of Congress.
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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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WASHINGTON -- President Bush is sending Congress a $3 trillion spending blueprint that would provide a big boost to defense and protect his signature tax cuts.
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President Bush signs the 2005 budget for funding the Department of Homeland Security, allocating some $40.7 billion to that agency, an increase of 6.6 percent over 2004.
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President Bush asked Congress for an additional &#36;3.1 billion Tuesday to help Florida and other states recover from the battering they endured from recent hurricanes.
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President Bush on Tuesday asked for  more than $80 billion in new funding for military operations  this year in Iraq and Afghanistan, shattering initial cost  estimates and pushing the total for both conflicts to nearly  $300 billion so far.
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President Bush's &#36;2.5 trillion budget is shaping up as his most austere, trying to restrain spending across a wide swath of government from popular farm subsidies to poor people's health programs.
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President Bush said Tuesday that Americans will now be able to "Google their tax dollars," as he signed a law to create an online database for tracking about $1 trillion in government spending on grants and contracts.
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President Bush's budget, sent to Congress on Monday, proposes cuts in domestic spending in an effort to tackle the ballooning budget deficit.
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President Bush today unveiled a tough-minded, $3 trillion budget proposal for fiscal 2009 that would slice $14.2 billion from the growth of federal health-care programs, eliminate scores of programs and virtually freeze domestic spending -- but would still record a $407 billion budget deficit.
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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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President Bush will ask Congress for close to three-quarters of a trillion dollars in defense spending on Monday, including $245 billion to cover the cost of fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan and other elements of the "global war on terror," senior administration officials said yesterday.
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President Bush on Tuesday promoted his entire domestic agenda &#151; from a massive Social Security overhaul to a new, austere budget &#151; as changes needed for faster job growth and a solid economic expansion.
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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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U.S. President George W. Bush asked Congress on Monday for $189.3 billion to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, another huge request that faced deep skepticism from lawmakers opposed to prolonging the Iraq conflict.