President Obama: Budget not 'ideal' but has 'tough reforms'

Sunday, April 7, 2013

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama says his soon-to-be released budget, already criticized by friends and foes, is not his "ideal plan" but offers "tough reforms" for benefit programs and scuttles some tax breaks for the wealthy.

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