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From today's NY Times: Bush's $2.2 Trillion Budget Proposes Record Deficits By ELISABETH BUMILLER WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 � President Bush sent Congress a $2.23 trillion budget today � with record deficits � that would speed up billions of dollars in income tax cuts, provide huge increases for the Pentagon and offer a modest jump in spending for NASA... ~~~ Bush's Budget Has 'Big Ideas,' but No Aim to Balance Ledger By DAVID E. ROSENBAUM WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 � When all the proposals are tallied in the budget President Bush submitted today, they amount to the most ambitious changes in government operations that any president has put forward in decades. Beyond its scope, the budget differs from those of other recent presidents in two important ways. Nowhere does Mr. Bush make balancing the budget an important goal. And he makes no claim that the era of big government is over, or even nearing an end... Copyright 2003 The New York Times Company |