"It is a budget that focuses on results," Bush said. "Taxpayers in America don't want us spending their money on something that's not achieving results."
The plan slashes the budget of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) by 11.5 percent, the Transportation Department by 6.6 percent, the USDA by 9.6 percent and the EPA by 5.6 percent.
http://us.oneworld.net/article/view/102922/1/7263Tell us all about the results Bush....
"Our priority is to protect the American people," Bush said after a Cabinet meeting where he introduced his fiscal 2008 budget. "I strongly believe Congress needs to listen to a budget which has no tax increase, and a budget, because of fiscal discipline, that can be balanced in five years."
George Protecting America again. Good ol Georgie.
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush sent his proposed budget for 2002 to Congress Monday with big increases in spending for education and defense and cuts in transportation, agriculture and environmental protection.
"This budget funds our needs without the fat," Bush told reporters as he convened a Cabinet meeting Monday morning. "It represents a new way of doing business in Washington and a new way of thinking. It puts the taxpayers first, and that is exactly where they belong."
http://archives.cnn.com/2001/ALLPOLITICS/04/09/bush.budget.03/index.htmlWhen George refers to our needs he meant his cronies needs...and when he refers to fat he means silly stuff like bridges, and levies.
CONGRESS MUST RESTORE TRANSPORTATION CUTS AND
REJECT SHORTSIGHTED POLICY DIRECTION IN BUSH 2003 BUDGET
Thousands of transportation workers have been laid off in this ailing economy including some 140,000 airline, airport and aircraft manufacturing employees following the September 11 disaster. Transportation labor believes the best means to deal with this crisis is to provide relief to laid-off workers and revitalize our economy through investments in transportation. Unfortunately, President Bush’s FY 2003 budget fails to respond to both of these basic needs and slashes the nation’s highway infrastructure program at the expense of several hundred thousand jobs the economy can ill afford to lose.
http://www.ttd.org/Resolutions/feb2002/no.4.htmStatement by Senator Conrad Reacting to President Bush's Budget
2/2/04
- Tansportation: The President's budget will shortchange North Dakota's highways and bridges, putting our state's transportation infrastructure at great risk. Under the Bush budget, North Dakota will get $300 million less than what is in the highway bill now pending in the Senate. The budget also again cuts Amtrak funding by more than $300 million and slashes Essential Air Service by more than 50 percent. This funding is vital to ensure affordable access to many of North Dakota's rural communities.
http://conrad.senate.gov/~conrad/releases/04/02/2004210321.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The House on Tuesday rejected moves by conservatives to cut taxpayer subsidies for Amtrak as backers of the money-losing passenger railroad cemented their position in the Democratic Congress.
The move came as the House easily passed a $104 billion measure funding transportation and housing programs for the budget year beginning Oct. 1. That vote was 268-153, enough to sustain a promised veto by President Bush.
The White House has threatened to veto the transportation and housing bill for exceeding Bush's request by $3.4 billion, and lawmakers are increasingly concerned that many if not most of the 12 annual spending measures won't get enacted into law until late in the year as part of a foot-tall omnibus bill.
The measure also contains almost 1,500 pet projects requested by lawmakers such as roads and bridges, as well as community development projects such as building a YMCA in Killeen, Texas, and demolishing abandoned buildings for a redevelopment project in Waterbury, Conn.http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-07-24-amtrak_N.htmThose damn pet projects like roads and bridges....