Word: budgeted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...inertia on the domestic front. For while taking an initial cautious approach may be prudent in matters of foreign policy, it seems ill-advised in matters of domestic policy that desperately need to be addressed. Granted, curtailing the drug epidemic in our cities or reducing the nation's budget deficit may not be exciting or dramatic, but they are as vital to America's future as any conventional arms agreements in Europe...
Throughout the fall campaign, Bush swore that he would be the "education President," yet his current budget, in fact, calls for a reduction in education spending. In a similar vein, Bush has repeatedly proclaimed a greater sensitivity to the needs of our environment than his predecessor held, but still showed remarkable passivity in the face of the Alaskan oil spill, seeming reluctant to confront one of the nation's major oil companies...
Stubbornly adhering to his "read my lips" campaign pledge that there will be "no new taxes," Bush offered a budget proposal that promised to reduce the current $160 billion deficit by over $70 billion during the next year, with mirrors...
...Senate Budget Committee Chair James Sasser (D-Tn.) said, the Bush budget proposal "does not meet the rigorous economic demands of this moment in history." And although an agreement with Congress has since been reached on the budget, it is still extremely vague and based on absurdly optimistic projections...
...President Bush has not yet endorsed the program, and funding is uncertain. While NASA has $24.2 million of EOS start-up money in its fiscal 1990 budget, the big push for Mission to Planet Earth will begin this fall, when the agency asks for $100 million more for 1991. That hardly seems too much for a long-term commitment to help save the planet...