GOP wants to cut funds for science, housing assistance, retirement benefits

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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Subject: GOP wants to cut funds for science, housing assistance, retirement
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Applying Brakes to Benefits Gets Wide G.O.P. Backing

By ROBERT PEAR

Published: January 9, 2005

ASHINGTON, Jan. 8 - In his budget request to Congress, President
Bush will try to impose firm, enforceable limits on the growth of
federal benefit programs, and the chairmen of the Senate and House
Budget Committees say they strongly supported that effort.

Administration officials and Congressional aides said Mr. Bush
would also seek cuts in housing assistance for low-income families,
freezes or slight increases in most domestic programs, and larger
increases for domestic security. The spending plan for 2006, like
the appropriations enacted for this year, would give priority to
military operations and domestic security over social welfare programs.

The new chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, Judd Gregg,
Republican of New Hampshire, said he and other fiscal conservatives
wanted to establish "enforcement mechanisms" to "put the brakes on
the growth of entitlements," which pay benefits to millions of
Americans according to formulas set by law.

"The White House also wants to address entitlement spending," Mr.
Gregg said in an interview.

Mr. Bush plans to submit his budget to Congress early next month.
Officials at the affected agencies said he would propose a virtual
freeze for the National Science Foundation and a very small
increase for the National Institutes of Health....

Full text at:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/09/politics/09budget1.html?pagewanted=all&pos
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