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Policy Priorities says, “One
possible inference is that the
compassion is only supposed
to last through the election.”
Kogan, a 20-year veteran
of the House Budget
Committee, cites Title 1, the
education program that
sends federal money directly
to school districts with high
concentrations of low-income
students, as an example of
what he calls Bush’s sleight
of hand.
“The president is proposing
an increase from $13,846 bil
lion in fiscal year ’04 to
$15,205 billion in fiscal year
’05. And he’s touting the
increases. This is one of the
increases that he deliberate
ly leaked before the State of
the Union,” Kogan says.
“The next year, 2006, the
number is cut from $15,205
billion to $14,818 billion.”
Kogan says he was able to
find about the budget
shenanigans only by exam
ining additional documents
from the Congressional
Budget Office.
“They removed from then-
budget documents all the
tables that would show this,”
says Kogan, who also
worked for the
Congressional Research
Service prior to joining the
Center on Budget and Policy
Priorities. “It’s virtually
unheard of for [a president]
to change budget documents
to hide information that had
pre-viously been made avail
able.”
Kogan says it was a delib
erate effort to conceal cuts.
“The tables that they
chopped off in 2005 were
tables that in pre-vious years,
going back many, many
years, had always shown
account level detail year-by-
year for the budget year and
the subsequent four years,”
he explains. “They had to
have dehberately decided to
go throughout the budget
and cut every place where
these numbers would appear
so you wouldn’t get them.”
The president’s proposed
$401 billion mflitaiy budget,
drew criticism from the
Congressional Black
Caucus.
“Defense spending -will go
up 7 percent, homeland
security 10 percent, while
President Bush proposed
spending for education,
health care and other social
needs will go up only 1 per
cent. It won’t even keep pace
with inflation,” Rep. Jesse
Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.) said.
“Brace yourself Hard times
are ahead.”.
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$401.7 billion, not including
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