White House Details Proposed Spending Cuts
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More than five days after unveiling his budget, President Bush spelled out in detail for lawmakers his requests to eliminate or sharply reduce spending for 154 programs the administration sees as duplications, failures or inefficiencies.
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The administrator of the U.S. White House's Office of Management and Budget says software as a service can help federal agencies cut costs.
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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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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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The White House on Saturday played down a newspaper report that the Bush administration was weighing a scenario for possibly sharp cuts in U.S. troop levels in Iraq next year.
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The Bush administration plans to propose cuts in funds to fix the aging Hubble Space Telescope, a U.S. official said on Saturday, as the head of the telescope project said he hoped Congress would approve money for repairs.
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President George W. Bush will propose freezing most domestic spending in his upcoming 2009 budget and will seek big cost savings from government health care programs, a U.S. official said on Thursday.
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White House officials and Congress' top budget writers tried rallying support Tuesday for President Bush's &#36;2.57 trillion budget, but cracks in Republican unity showed as lawmakers digested the plan's proposed spending cuts.
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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 president of the American Hospital Association discusses how Bush's proposed budget cuts could hurt the nation's medical facilities.
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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 stuck to generalities in his State of the Union message, but the White House this week provided some details of its plan to set up private accounts in the Social Security system. The administration didn't lay out a complete road map. It remains unclear, for example, how much traditional benefits will have to be cut or how the ...
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The White House says its drive to halve federal deficits by 2009 remains on track, though it projects that the cost of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will help drive this year's shortfall to a record &#36;427 billion.
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A two-day White House-sponsored conference on the economy is aimed at boosting President Bush's proposals for more tax cuts, freer trade, tort reform and Social Security changes.
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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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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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Washington -- The White House and lawmakers are getting close to agreement on a $388 billion spending measure that could be ready for votes Friday.