Chertoff defends Bush's budget proposal
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Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff got an earful at his first public sit-down with the new Congress on Thursday, with members raising concerns about cuts in state grants, sharp increases in immigration fees and lax management of billion-dollar programs.
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The former U.S. occupation chief in Iraq on Tuesday defended the way he haphazardly doled out billions of dollars in Iraqi funds after the U.S. invasion as Democrats began a two-year effort to scrutinize fraud, waste and abuse under the Bush administration.
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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 Bush yesterday defended his defense chief Donald Rumsfeld against a growing chorus of criticism and praised him for doing a &quot;really fine job.
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The US Congress put off sending to President George W. Bush a $388 billion spending measure to fund 14 cabinet-level departments until December while lawmakers argue over how the budget process works.
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President Bush is pushing Congress to give him more authority to slice and dice the budget, an idea that&#039;s popular with conservatives who think the White House needs more muscle to restrict federal spending.
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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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The Bush administration defended its  plan for more massive spending on aviation security before a  skeptical U.S. Senate committee on Tuesday and said a Sept.  11-style hijacking or a bombing remain top threats.
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President Bushâs budget plan would provide a big boost to defense and protect his signature tax cuts.
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President Bush on Tuesday nominated  U.S. Appeals Court Judge Michael Chertoff, an architect of the  Justice Department's anti-terror response after the Sept. 11,  2001, attacks, to become secretary of homeland security.
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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...
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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 George W. Bush has defended the invasion of Iraq despite a new report rejecting. Thursday ratcheted up the political fight over Iraq
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President Bush on Monday proposed a  $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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Secretary of State-designate  Condoleezza Rice on Tuesday defended her integrity and honesty  as she clashed with senators about the Bush administration's  justification for the Iraq war and its exit strategy.
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President George W. Bush said on Wednesday that the U.S. Congress must fund the additional troops he is sending to Iraq as part of a strategy that Democrats, who are in the majority, and some Republicans have opposed.
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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.