Bush 2nd-Term Agenda Would Add Big Costs
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President Bush speaks during a news conference, Thursday, Oct. 4, 2004, in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington.
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An upbeat President Bush set forth an aggressive agenda for the next four years, but he also must deal with the realities his predecessors faced &#151; second terms tend to be disappointments, often marred by scandals, infighting and lackluster performances.
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US President George W Bush has outlined plans for his next four years in office. The White House claimed Mr Bush&#39;s re-election gave him a second-term mandate for his agenda to keep taxes low and revamp social security.
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Description: Although most of the second term plans articulated by President Bush have focused on domestic issues, a post-Arafat era could force President Bush to put Middle East peace back on the White House agenda.
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The list of major challenges confronting President Bush as he prepares to take the oath of office for the second time is exhausting.
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President Bush was poised to officially ask Congress Monday for an estimated &#36;82 billion to cover the costs of continuing military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and a myriad of other internationally related expenses, including training Iraqi security forces and aiding victims of the tsunami.
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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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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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The high cost of waging war is expected to swell the US budget deficit to $2.3-trillion (US) over the next decade, including a record $422-billion in the current fiscal year
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President Bush, declaring victory in the 2004 election, sketched out a second-term agenda on Wednesday even supporters conceded would be tough to achieve
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A fee charged to airline travelers to help pay for airport security would more than double under President Bush's proposed spending plan for the Homeland Security Department.
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US President George W. Bush saidThursday that there would be some changes to the cabinet for his second term. &quot;There will be some changes&quot; to the cabinet, but &quot;I don&#39;t
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President George W. Bush will on Monday unveil a $3 trillion budget that likely will spark anew the wrangling between the White House and the Democratic-led Congress over Iraq war funding, tax cuts and the sagging economy.
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Decision follows speculation that response to last year's financial turbulence might cost a second term
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President Bush said yesterday that he will spend the weekend considering changes in his  Cabinet for his second term, feeding speculation inside and outside the White House over shake-ups in key agencies in coming weeks.
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President Bush turned from inaugural pageantry to a daunting second-term agenda Friday while his administration scrambled to explain his newly declared goal of ending tyranny around the world.
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Trimming bulging deficits that threaten the US economy should be a priority for a second-term Bush administration, analysts say, but a commitment to a tax-cutting agenda may thwart the effort.