<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - The Budget</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/specials/fiscal/budget?nav=rss_politics/specials/fiscal/budget</link><description>The Budget</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Bush's '06 Budget Would Scrap or Reduce 154 Programs]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42369-2005Feb21.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/fiscal/budget</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42369-2005Feb21.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/fiscal/budget</guid><pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2005 4:05:43 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   From $4 million for an agriculture biotechnology program to $18 million for foreign-language assistance for small elementary and secondary schools and $489 million for congressionally earmarked Environmental Protection Agency projects, President Bush's fiscal 2006 budget plan calls for elimination of or drastic cuts in 154 programs.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weather Service Memo Warns of Cut's Impact]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40320-2005Feb20.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/fiscal/budget</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40320-2005Feb20.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/fiscal/budget</guid><pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2005 4:05:43 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A National Weather Service official said Congress has cut the agency's budget so drastically that it will impair its ability to warn the public of all sorts of foul weather, which, in turn, "will" lead to "unwarranted loss of life."]]></description><author> Brian Faler</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bush Requests $82B in Emergency War Funding]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23018-2005Feb14.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/fiscal/budget</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23018-2005Feb14.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/fiscal/budget</guid><pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2005 4:05:43 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The move by President Bush makes good on a pledge to dramatically scale up efforts to train and equip Iraqi security forces ahead of an eventual U.S. withdrawal.]]></description><author> Jonathan Weisman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[After Bush Leaves Office, Budget's Costs Balloon]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21721-2005Feb13.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/fiscal/budget</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21721-2005Feb13.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/fiscal/budget</guid><pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2005 4:05:43 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[For the senators and governors already jockeying to succeed President Bush, the numbers released add up to a budgetary landmine that could blow up just as the next president moves into the Oval Office.]]></description><author> Jonathan Weisman  and Peter Baker</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[From Some Bush Supporters, Anger Over Budget]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21552-2005Feb13.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/fiscal/budget</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21552-2005Feb13.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/fiscal/budget</guid><pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2005 4:05:43 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Red America is a bit red-in-the-face over President Bush's new budget. Within a few hours of the release of the president's proposal last week, Rep. John E. Peterson (R-Pa.), co-chairman of the Congressional Rural Caucus, fired off a statement criticizing the president he typically supports.]]></description><author> Dana Milbank</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Previously Untargeted Programs at Risk]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17523-2005Feb11.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/fiscal/budget</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17523-2005Feb11.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/fiscal/budget</guid><pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2005 4:05:43 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[President Bush's budget plan slates for the elimination or drastic reduction of 68 federal programs, including vocational-education grants, emergency medical services for children and aid to local law enforcement.]]></description><author> Peter Baker  and Christopher Lee</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democrats Call for Medicare Drug Inquiry]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12118-2005Feb9.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/fiscal/budget</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12118-2005Feb9.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/fiscal/budget</guid><pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2005 4:05:43 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Democratic lawmakers seized on news that the Medicare prescription drug benefit will cost much more than first projected, blasting the Bush administration and saying it cannot be trusted to acknowledge the likely costs of its priorities, including revisions to Social Security.]]></description><author> Charles Babington  and Ceci Connolly</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drug Benefit May Cost More Than Reported]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11008-2005Feb9.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/fiscal/budget</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11008-2005Feb9.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/fiscal/budget</guid><pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2005 4:05:43 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The White House released budget figures yesterday indicating that the new Medicare prescription drug benefit will cost more than $1.2 trillion in the coming decade, a much higher price tag than President Bush suggested when he narrowly won passage of the law in late 2003.]]></description><author> Ceci Connolly and Mike Allen</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[No Chesapeake Bailout In President's Budget]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9187-2005Feb8.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/fiscal/budget</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9187-2005Feb8.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/fiscal/budget</guid><pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2005 4:05:43 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Cuts leave many around the bay with hopes dashed -- or at least delayed.]]></description><author> David A. Fahrenthold</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[O'Malley Likens Bush's Proposed Cuts to Sept. 11 Attacks]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9117-2005Feb8.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/fiscal/budget</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9117-2005Feb8.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/fiscal/budget</guid><pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2005 4:05:43 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley Tuesday compared President Bush's proposed budget cuts to the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.]]></description><author> Lori Montgomery</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bush Begins Push for Budget]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8088-2005Feb8.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/fiscal/budget</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8088-2005Feb8.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/fiscal/budget</guid><pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2005 4:05:43 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[President Bush prodded Congress on Tuesday to adopt what he called the most disciplined federal budget in more than 20 years, warning lawmakers that sacrifices must be made to finance a wartime government.]]></description><author> Jim VandeHei</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bush to Seek $419.3 Billion for Defense]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64216-2005Feb4.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/fiscal/budget</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64216-2005Feb4.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/fiscal/budget</guid><pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2005 4:05:43 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ President Bush will seek $419.3 billion for the Defense Department in the fiscal year that begins this October, a 4.8 percent increase over this year's spending, not counting the cost of war in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a Defense Department document obtained by The Washington Post.]]></description><author> Jonathan Weisman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[U.S. Hits Debt Limit After Ceiling Raises Delayed]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32985-2004Oct14.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/fiscal/budget</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32985-2004Oct14.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/fiscal/budget</guid><pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2005 4:05:43 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The House passed a $690 billion increase in the debt ceiling in a 2005 budget resolution, but it was never adopted by the Senate, leading to delayed contributions to federal employees' pension systems.]]></description><author> Jonathan Weisman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bush: Congress Slow on Tax Cuts]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16049-2003May5.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/fiscal/budget</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16049-2003May5.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/fiscal/budget</guid><pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2005 4:05:43 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[President Bush, campaigning for his beleaguered tax cut package today, beseeched Americans to place personal calls to their congressional representatives to tell them they want the proposal passed..]]></description><author> Karen DeYoung</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[GOP Leaders Strike Budget Deal]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1250-2003Apr9.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/fiscal/budget</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1250-2003Apr9.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/fiscal/budget</guid><pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2005 4:05:43 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Republicans in Congress, hopeful that President Bush will emerge from the war powerful enough to rescue most of his $726 billion tax cut proposal, agreed to postpone negotiations over the tax cut's size.]]></description><author> Jim VandeHei</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[$62B Wartime Spending Bill Stalls]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1253-2003Apr9.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/fiscal/budget</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1253-2003Apr9.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/fiscal/budget</guid><pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2005 4:05:43 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A series of disagreements between House and Senate Republicans over unrelated issues holds up action on the  measure that would provide $62 billion for Pentagon operations in Iraq.]]></description><author> Dan Morgan</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Senate Votes to Slash Bush's Tax Cuts in Half]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26376-2003Mar25.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/fiscal/budget</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26376-2003Mar25.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/fiscal/budget</guid><pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2005 4:05:43 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Senate unexpectedly reversed itself Tuesday, voting to slash more than half of President Bush's proposed $726 billion tax cut and dealing a blow to the keystone of his economic recovery plan.]]></description><author> Helen Dewar</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[CBO Sees $199 Billion Budget Gap]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63329-2003Jan29.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/fiscal/budget</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63329-2003Jan29.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/fiscal/budget</guid><pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2005 4:05:43 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Congressional Budget Office yesterday forecast a larger-than-expected deficit of $199 billion for this fiscal year, the biggest shortfall since 1994 and a figure more than a third larger than the deficit projected five months ago.]]></description><author> Jonathan Weisman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Grim Fiscal Forecast for States]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31285-2002Dec23.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/fiscal/budget</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31285-2002Dec23.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/fiscal/budget</guid><pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2005 4:05:43 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The fiscal crisis appears likely to grow even larger in the next budget year, bringing with it deep cuts in a range of services and mounting pressure to raise taxes, according to a survey.]]></description><author> Dale Russakoff</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defense Budget: Tough Choices Skirted?]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51603-2002Feb9.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/fiscal/budget</link><guid 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