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Bush budget would bring record deficits
Feb 4 2008 11:11PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The record $3.1 trillion budget proposed by President Bush on Monday would produce eyepopping federal deficits, despite his attempts to impose politically wrenching curbs on Medicare and eliminate scores of popular domestic programs.
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Bush budget would bring record deficits
Feb 4 2008 11:11PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The record $3.1 trillion budget proposed by President Bush on Monday would produce eyepopping federal deficits, despite his attempts to impose politically wrenching curbs on Medicare and eliminate scores of popular domestic programs.
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Bush budget would bring record deficits
Feb 4 2008 11:11PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The record $3.1 trillion budget proposed by President Bush on Monday would produce eyepopping federal deficits, despite his attempts to impose politically wrenching curbs on Medicare and eliminate scores of popular domestic programs.
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Borders, transit top security spending
Feb 4 2008 9:38PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Preventing terrorists from hacking into computer systems that run the nation's power grid and other vital networks gets a new emphasis in President Bush's proposed budget for homeland security.
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Leahy criticizes Bush on open records
Feb 4 2008 7:26PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A Senate committee chairman accused the Bush administration on Monday of undercutting open government with a budget proposal that would have the Justice Department oversee a new office devoted to promoting greater freedom of information.
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Prosecutor sought for White House probe
Feb 4 2008 7:03PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - An advocacy group on Monday sought a criminal probe of the White House over millions of possibly missing e-mails, saying someone may have deliberately deleted them to conceal involvement in a potential crime.
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Fight looms over global AIDS program
Feb 4 2008 6:49PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A five-year, $15 billion effort to combat AIDS in Africa and other areas _ arguably the most important and popular international program of the Bush presidency _ may become a political battleground as it comes up for renewal.
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Bush takes aim at Medicare, Medicaid
Feb 4 2008 4:07PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush took his proposals to slow Medicare and Medicaid spending to a new scale in his proposed 2009 budget even though previous, more modest efforts to trim the entitlement programs went nowhere.
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Gates urges Congress to act on war funds
Feb 4 2008 3:38PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Defense Secretary Robert Gates called on Congress Monday to approve $102.5 billion in war funds that President Bush requested last year. The money has been held up by Democrats' disagreements with the White House over the conduct of the war in Iraq.
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Bush budget makes tax assumptions
Feb 4 2008 1:46PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush's tax-and-spending blueprint calls for making 2001 and 2003 tax cuts permanent but assumes that tens of millions of taxpayers eventually will be paying higher alternative minimum tax rates.
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Bush offers congrats to Giants
Feb 4 2008 12:14PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush, who stayed up past his normal bedtime to watch the end of a stirring Super Bowl, called members of the New York Giants organization on Monday to offer his congratulations.
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Bush says budget proposal is sound
Feb 4 2008 11:33AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush said Monday his $3.1 trillion budget plan will keep the U.S. economy growing and protect the U.S. militarily.
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What's in a trillion?
Feb 4 2008 10:43AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A person given $1 million a year to spend would need 3 million years to blow $3 trillion. The United States, a government of sizable financial appetite, can do it in one.
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