President George Bush submitted a $2.13 trillion budget to Congress.

Economist (US), The, February, 2002

Politics

President George Bush submitted a $2.13 trillion budget to Congress. It included the biggest rise in military spending since 1982 and allocated several billion dollars to protect the United States from biological terrorism. Senate Democrats blocked his plan to stimulate the economy.

George Tenet, the director of the CIA, warned the Senate intelligence committee that the leaders of al-Qaeda were working "to reconstitute the organisation and resume its terrorist operations".

John Walker, an American who fought for the Taliban, was indicted by a federal grand jury for "ten serious crimes", including five conspiracy charges. He was denied bail, despite his lawyers' claim that his statements were made under "highly coercive...