Bush Sends Congress $2.90T Spending Plan
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WASHINGTON -- President Bush sent a $2.90 trillion spending plan to a Democratic-controlled Congress on Monday, proposing a big increase in military spending, including billions more to fight the war in Iraq, while squeezing the rest of government to meet his goal of eliminating the deficit in five...
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POPLAR BLUFF, Mo.  - President Bush asked Congress  on Monday to immediately approve $2 billion for  hurricane-battered Florida and the White House announced he  would visit the election battleground state on Wednesday.
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President George W. Bush on Monday proposed more than $700 billion in new spending for the U.S. military -- much of it for the Iraq war -- in a budget that would curb domestic programs from health to education.
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President Bush on Monday asked a skeptical, Democrat-run Congress to raise military spending by $700 billion -- much of it for the Iraq war -- and curb domestic programs from health to education.
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In his new budget, the president has requested money for thousands of items similar to the pet projects of Congress.
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President Bush will ask Congress for &#36;419.3 billion for the Pentagon for next year, 4.8 percent more than this year's spending, as the administration seeks to beef up and reshape the Army and Marine Corps for fighting terrorism.
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President George W. Bush would like to see a package of tax cuts and other measures totaling around $140 billion to shore up the fragile U.S. economy, a White House document showed on Friday.
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Bloomberg - Feb. 4 (Bloomberg) -- President George W. Bush, in his the final budget, will propose a $3 trillion plan that would freeze or cut Medicare and other domestic programs and will touch off election-year battles with Congress.
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POPLAR BLUFF, Mo.  - The White House asked  Congress on Monday to approve $2 billion in emergency funding  for hurricane-battered Florida and said President Bush would  visit the election battleground state on Wednesday.
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President George W. Bush asked Congress on Monday for $189.3 billion to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, another huge request that faces deep skepticism from lawmakers opposed to prolonging the Iraq conflict.
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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 complained Thursday about thousands of pet projects Congress sent to him in a just-passed spending bill and asked his budget director for ideas for what to do with them.
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President Bush will travel to Florida Wednesday to survey damage from Hurricane Frances. He sent a letter to Congress asking for $2 billion to help with recovery efforts.
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President George W. Bush will ask Congress for $99.7 billion for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars for rest of fiscal year 2007 and more than $145 billion for fiscal year 2008, a Bush administration official said on Friday.
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President Bush said Wednesday he will ask Congress for &#36;100 million to help modernize armed forces in Poland, a staunch ally in the war in Iraq.
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President Bush will propose &#36;3.2 billion for next year to combat the spread of AIDS globally, one of the few increases in what is expected to be a tight foreign aid budget, administration and congressional sources said on Friday.
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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.