Obama budget: Some cuts, not slashes GOP asks
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
WASHINGTON -- Putting on the brakes after two years of big spending increases, President Barack Obama unveiled a $3.7 trillion budget plan Monday that would freeze or reduce some safety-net programs for the nation's poor but turn aside Republican demands for more drastic cuts to shrink the government to where it was before he took office.
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