Bush Budget Aims to Cut Many Domestic Programs
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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.
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OVERVIEW: In his 2006 budget request of some &#36;2.5 trillion going to Congress on Monday, President Bush will propose holding down growth in defense spending and cutting dollars for some domestic programs to cope with large deficits.
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In his new budget, President Bush will call for large cuts in the growth of Medicare and he will again seek major savings in Medicaid.
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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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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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President Bush said Saturday that his administration will outline a series of changes that would clamp down on the common Capitol Hill practice of slipping pet projects into spending bills.
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President Bush's budget will propose cuts of up to 40 percent in a &#36;4.7 billion program that disperses development grants to communities across the United States, congressional aides said Wednesday.
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President Bush has scored early victories in the budget battle even as some of his specific plans to cut spending have been criticized.
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Bush is expected to announce trims in healthcare spending, placing the burden back on fiscally strapped states.
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President Bush will propose squeezing substantial savings next year from domestic programs, giving them less than the 2.3 percent increase they would need to keep pace with inflation, the White House budget director said Thursday.
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President Bush proposed a &#36;2.57 trillion budget Monday that would erase scores of programs and slice Medicaid, disabled housing and many more but still worsen federal deficits by &#36;42 billion over the next five years.
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Here are the 154 programs that President Bush wants to eliminate or cut in his 2006 budget proposal. Bush would terminate 99 programs and make major spending reductions in 55. Separately, the administration listed eight major reforms Bush proposed that also would produce spending cuts.
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President George W. Bush on Monday proposed more than $700 billion in new spending for the military -- much of it for the Iraq war -- in a budget that would restrain domestic programs from health to education.
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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 Bush will present a budget tomorrow that would slow the growth of Medicare and cut or eliminate an array of domestic programs but still anticipates a flood of new red ink that will rival the record deficits of his first term, administration officials said.
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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 war and tight domestic spending to offset the cost of his tax cuts....
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President Bush is moving quickly to create a new, tighter and more disciplined domestic policy team to pursue transforming the way Americans save for retirement, pay taxes and seek legal damages.