Word: budgeted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...problem for Bush, observers say, is that the promises he made in the campaign mean tough cuts for other programs. Already, he has pledged not to touch Social Security, and has suggested he would not cut Medicare. Moreover, while Bush has said he would trim the defense budget, he has said he would limit it only to the level of inflation...
These constraints, say experts like Susan Irving, a Kennedy School of Government lecturer, mean Bush must cut other programs drastically if he wants to meet the balanced budget goals required by the 1985 Gramm-Rudman-Hollings...
...touch Medicare, and we certainly can't touch Social Security. That's probably true. But the bottom line is the lion's share of our government spending goes to those benefits, and unless they address them some way, it's going to be damn difficult to balance a budget on remaining expenditures, including defense...
...knowing whose ox is going to be gored is making Congress uneasy, say House and Senate budget leaders. Until Bush announces his budget on February 9, members of Congress say they do not know from where the cuts will come...
What troubles other experts, however, is a belief that the Bush campaign promises are irreconciliable with a balanced budget...