Word: budgeted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WASHINGTON--President-elect George Bush will round out his economic team today by naming Richard G. Darman '64 as White House budget director and Michael J. Boskin as chairman of the president's Council of Economic Advisers, transition sources said yesterday...
...Bush, anxious to be known as the "Education president," proposes a $2 billion increase in the education budget. To fund this within his "flexible freeze," he cuts $2 billion from existing education appropriations...
June 1: Bush unveils his fiscal 1990 budget, with NO NEW TAXES. "Read my lips, Congress, NO NEW TAXES!" he proclaims. "If you really need to increase revenues, then you are just going to have to raise the taxes we already have...
Cutting the budget deficit is a task for America's best and coolest-headed. But even they are pounding the table in frustration, as was the case last week when the bipartisan National Economic Commission met. Congress created the panel last December, hoping it would produce a consensus on deficit-trimming measures (and take the heat off Congress to do so). But the deliberations, hemmed in by untouchable Social Security benefits on one side and antitax sentiment on the other, have taken on a sense of futility...
...luxury of not endorsing." The Times decried a "no-issue campaign" in which George Bush has run "irrelevantly, like someone seeking to be Grand Inquisitor" and Michael Dukakis has run "mechanically, like a candidate for Plant Superintendent." What tipped the scales to Dukakis for the Times was the budget deficit and Bush's plan to cut the capital-gains tax; for the Globe, it was Dan Quayle...