Bush unveils budget proposal.(George W. Bush)

Nation's Cities Weekly, February, 2005 by McGee, Jennifer; Mohrman-Gillis, Marilyn

President Bush's fiscal year 2006 budget proposal, which represents the leanest funding proposal so far of the Bush presidency, includes reductions in and elimination of many programs important to America's cities, such as Community Development Block Grants (CDBG) and Amtrak operating subsidies, while preserving a directive that 80 percent of homeland security grants must go directly to local governments.

The $2.57 trillion fiscal year 2006 budget proposes severe cuts in discretionary domestic spending with the goal of cutting the deficit in half by 2009. Overall, the FY 2006 budget proposal requests a 5 percent increase in defense spending, a 3 percent increase in nondefense homeland security spending and a 1 percent decrease in spending for other government...

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