White House Spells Out List of 150 Budget Cuts
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President Bush's quest to cut or  eliminate as many as 150 federal programs will reduce funding  for state and local homeland security grants, job training and  several education programs, the White House said on Friday.
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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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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 and congressional leaders agreed on Thursday on a $150 billion package of family tax rebates and business incentives meant to ward off a recession in the world's largest economy.
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The Bush administration is hammering out its largest-ever appeal for more Iraq war funds &#151; a record $100 billion, at least, and that figure reflects cuts from wish lists originally circulating around the Pentagon.
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Here are details of President Bush's budget for the major federal agencies.
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The White House on Tuesday slashed  its forecast for this year&#039;s budget deficit to &#36;296 billion,  crediting its tax cuts for the improvement, but Democrats said  the deficit&#039;s size was nothing to boast about.
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A day after President George W. Bush cited enough progress in Iraq to justify U.S. troop reductions, the White House told Congress on Friday that Iraqi leaders had failed to meet half of their key goals.
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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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The move sends President Bush a 650-page measure that reduces taxes for domestic manufacturers, builders and even Hollywood studios and doles out scores of tax breaks for interests groups.
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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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Democratic presidential contender  Barack Obama proposed up to $85 billion in tax cuts for about  150 million Americans on Tuesday, paid for by raising capital  gains and dividend taxes on wealthy investors.
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As you may have heard, the latest White House proposal for the federal budget amounts to a bazillion gazillion dollars, give or take a jillion. The great news is that, according to White House calculations, the budget deficit has been cut in half, a feat achieved primarily by running up the deficit...
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President Bushâs $3.1 trillion budget would increase military spending and curb the growth of Medicare and Medicaid but raise the federal deficit by nearly $250 billion.
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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 presents his 2006 budget to Congress - seeking cuts across a wide range of government departments in a bid to lower the record US deficit.
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President Bush on Monday proposed a &#36;2.57 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.