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Bush's $2.8T Budget Proposal Cuts Domestic Programs (Jonathan Weisman, 2/06/06, Washington Post)

President Bush today proposed a $2.8 trillion budget for fiscal 2007 that would cut billions of dollars from domestic programs ranging from Medicare and food stamps to local law enforcement and disease control, while extending most of his tax cuts beyond their 2010 expiration date.

Under the plan, a budget deficit -- expected to reach $423 billion this year -- would fall to $183 billion by 2010, more than meeting his goal to cut the deficit in half by 2009.

Not that it would ever pass in that form, but you can't tell folks the budget is $2.8 trillion in one breath and that it doesn't spend enough in the next and expect them to care.

Posted by Orrin Judd at February 6, 2006 8:31 PM