6.01.2004

Kids and Vets Among Bush's New Planned Program Cuts

From AP on Yahoo comes word on the new ways Mr. Bush will fund massive tax cuts for the wealthy:

_Domestic security at the Homeland Security Department and other agencies would go from $30.6 billion in 2005 to $29.6 billion in 2006, a 3 percent drop.
    _The Education Department would go from $57.3 billion in 2005 to $55.9 billion in 2006, 2.4 percent less.

    _The Veterans Affairs Department would fall 3.4 percent from $29.7 billion in 2005 to $28.7 billion.

    _The Environmental Protection Agency would drop from $7.8 billion in 2005 to $7.6 billion, or 2.6 percent.

    _The National Institutes of Health, which finances biomedical research and had its budget doubled over a recent five-year period, would fall from $28.6 billion to $28 billion, or 2.1 percent.

    _The Interior Department would fall 1.9 percent from $10.8 billion in 2005 to $10.6 billion.

    _The Defense Department would grow 5.2 percent to $422.7 billion in 2006, and the Justice Department (news - web sites) would increase 4.3 percent to $19.5 billion in 2006.