Bush, Congress prepare to face off over yearly budget's nips and tucks

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what will get cut from the 2007 budget and why.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-01-18-2007-budget-plans_x.htm

Bush, Congress prepare to face off over yearly budget's nips and tucks

By Richard Wolf, USA TODAY

WASHINGTON — A 37-year history and more than 2 million "graduates" didn't help the National Youth Sports Program avoid the budget knife last year. The program, which gives athletic instruction to about 72,000 low-income children for five weeks each summer, was wiped out of the federal budget by President Bush and Congress.

Not so for the National Writing Project, though it, too, had been targeted for termination by Bush's budget. The project, which helps about 100,000 teachers each year learn how to pass on writing skills to their students, got a 7% increase in a spending bill approved by Congress late last month.<snip>

Of the 99 programs Bush proposed to end, Congress killed 24, trimmed 28 and left 47 intact, according to the White House Office of Management and Budget. Bush wanted to cut $15.8 billion by killing or trimming 154 programs; he got $6.5 billion. That was just 41% of the savings Bush wanted. But in a sign of how tough it is to cut spending, it was more than Congress has accepted in a single year since 1995, when Republicans took over both houses of Congress, says Brian Riedl of the conservative Heritage Foundation.<snip>

Among the programs eliminated in this year's budget were those that coordinate health services for the uninsured, help prison inmates learn to read and encourage middle-schoolers to get more exercise.<snip>

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1. Fewer after school programs; more prisons

When will they start full tilt on the tent cities?
That will be the new retirement plan, health plan.

Sign as you approach: Tent City: Fend for Yourself