Bush budget pinches domestic spending
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President Bush unveiled a $2.9 trillion budget Monday that rewards the Pentagon with a record $50 billion budget hike but pinches programs cherished by Democrats, including health research and heating subsidies for the poor.
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Back in control of the purse strings after more than a decade, congressional Democrats are pursuing billions in new domestic spending, setting up another clash with President Bush, who has threatened to veto any measures that exceed his budget.
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US President George W Bush submits a $2.9 trillion budget request, including billions of dollars for operations in Iraq.
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President Bush's new $2.57 trillion  budget makes cutting the deficit a "very difficult exercise"  because it relies on cuts in a fraction of overall government  spending, the director of the Congressional Budget Office said  on Thursday.
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President Bush sent to Congress a $2.9 trillion budget plan that would dramatically increase military spending -- including an extra $245 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan -- but squeeze federal health care programs and most domestic agencies to achieve his goal of eliminating the deficit...
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The nation's budget deficit will drop to $205 billion in the fiscal year that ends in September, even as a worsening deficit picture for future years makes it more difficult for President Bush to meet his pledge of a surplus by 2012.
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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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resident Bush sent a $2.9 trillion spending plan to a Democratic-controlled Congress on Monday, proposing to spend billions more to fight the war in Iraq while squeezing the rest of government to meet his goal of eliminating the deficit
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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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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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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 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 is expected on Monday to estimate the costs for the Iraq war at nearly $300 billion over the next 2 1/2 years and propose limiting domestic spending for fiscal year 2008.
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President Bush on Monday will seek $245 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan while boosting other military spending and curbing domestic programs, setting the stage for a big battle with Democrats over funding priorities.
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American money has helped maintain security in Iraq, but now budgetary constraints are slowing the flow of cash
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Here are details of President Bush's budget for the major federal agencies.
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President Bush on Monday asked a skeptical, Democrat-run Congress to approve $700 billion in new military spending -- much of it for the Iraq war -- and to curb many domestic programs.