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May 7, 2009

Obama to Unveil $17 Billion in Budget Cuts
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121 federal programs to be cut or reduced in US president's
'line-by-line' effort to trim budget for next year 
US President Barack Obama White House officials say the Obama
administration is set to unveil a new set of proposed budget cuts
totaling about $17 billion. Officials say President Barack Obama on
Thursday will release a list of 121 federal programs to be cut or
reduced in his "line-by-line" effort to trim the budget for next year.
The cuts add up to only a tiny percentage of the $3.5 trillion budget
approved by Congress last month, and some lawmakers have resisted past
efforts to cut the same programs. House Minority Leader John Boehner
said Congressional Republicans "respectfully suggest that we should do
far more."Officials say about half of the cuts will come from defense
programs, and the rest from domestic programs. The cuts include
eliminating a Department of Education attache at the U.S. embassy in
Paris, and ending a program that continues to pay states for cleaning up
abandoned mines that have already been cleaned up. Most of the military
cuts are already known, having been revealed by Defense Secretary Robert
Gates last month. They include elimination of the F-22 fighter jet
program and a new helicopter fleet for the president, as ending funding
for an obsolete long-range radio navigation system.

Some information for this report was provided by AFP, AP and Reuters.


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