Budget seeks to slash domestic programs

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President George W. Bush on Monday
proposed a $2.77 trillion 2007 budget that cuts domestic
programs from community policing to Medicare while bolstering
security spending as he seeks to tame a soaring deficit.

Facing election-year pressure from conservative Republicans
to get tougher on spending, Bush asked the U.S. Congress to
virtually freeze discretionary programs outside national
security.