Bush Cuts Draw Heat From GOP Members
Many in Congress want to achieve his spending goal, but not at the cost of popular programs
by Janet Hook and Warren Vieth, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers
February 9, 2005
WASHINGTON — As President Bush began promoting a 2006 budget plan that calls for reductions in an array of popular domestic programs, Republicans in Congress on Tuesday started searching for ways to achieve his overall deficit-reduction targets without slaying such political sacred cows as farm subsidies, Amtrak and aid to states.
Many of the proposals in Bush's $2.57-trillion spending plan drew fire not only from Democrats but also from members of the president's own party who are reluctant to cut programs because they — unlike Bush — face reelection in 2006 and beyond. ... Read the rest at
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copyright Virginia Metze
by Janet Hook and Warren Vieth, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers
February 9, 2005
WASHINGTON — As President Bush began promoting a 2006 budget plan that calls for reductions in an array of popular domestic programs, Republicans in Congress on Tuesday started searching for ways to achieve his overall deficit-reduction targets without slaying such political sacred cows as farm subsidies, Amtrak and aid to states.
Many of the proposals in Bush's $2.57-trillion spending plan drew fire not only from Democrats but also from members of the president's own party who are reluctant to cut programs because they — unlike Bush — face reelection in 2006 and beyond. ... Read the rest at
http://tinyurl.com/46bvp or
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-budget9feb09.story
copyright Virginia Metze
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