Bush Budget Would Cut Law Enforcement Aid
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President Bush's budget will propose slashing grants to local law enforcement agencies and cutting spending for environmental protection, American Indian schools and home-heating aid for the poor, The Associated Press learned Saturday.
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President George W. Bush will seek $140.7 billion on Monday for the U.S. Army in fiscal 2009, including increased funds to buy helicopters and other equipment, according to budget documents obtained by Reuters.
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The Bush administration on Thursday  claimed major successes in reducing illegal drug use among  teens, but lawmakers from both parties criticized its proposed  budget that would cut several anti-drug programs.
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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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From fewer Head Start programs to outdated police gear, the proposed federal budget calls for spending cuts close to home.
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The Bush administration,  facing  mounting violence in Iraq and demands for upgraded equipment,  is assembling a funding package for operations in Iraq and  Afghanistan that could surge beyond earlier estimates to as  much as $75 billion to $100 billion, congressional sources and  experts said on Thursday.
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President Bush plans to veto a defense spending bill that Congress passed this month, the White House said Friday.
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The Bush administration,  facing mounting violence in Iraq and demands for upgraded equipment, is assembling a funding package for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan that could surge beyond earlier estimates to as much as &#36;75 billion to &#36;100 billion, congressional sources and experts said on Thursday.
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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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American officials say they might have to curtail aid to the Interior Ministry police, who have been accused by Sunnis of complicity in torture and killings.
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President Bush plans to ask Congress to spend more to crack down on undocumented workers and arrest and deport illegal immigrants. But he wants to fund only a fraction of the new Border Patrol agents called for in a bill he signed last year.
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White House employees who oversee the war on drugs could be in for a huge pay cut next year.
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Dozens of popular health, housing and education programs would be eliminated or sharply reduced under the budget that President Bush plans to announce on Monday.
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President Bush burned through more than half of his &#36;75 million government grant to cover his general-election campaign costs in September, leaving him with just under &#36;37 million left for the final month before the Nov. 2 election.
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WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration plans to ask for between $80 billion and $100 billion to fund military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan next year, rather than the $70 billion to $75 billion the White House privately told members of Congress before the election, according to Pentagon and White House officials.
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The United States may cut off funding for Iraq's police because of its failure to punish people responsible for torture, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq said in an interview published on Saturday.
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President Bush on Monday will  propose his tightest budget, cutting scores of domestic  programs from housing to environmental protection to show he is  serious about reining in deficits that have ballooned under his  watch.