Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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However, the restrictive parliamentary procedure planned by the speaker requires a tough two-thirds vote before the bill could be sent to the Senate. The 51 percent raise would remain in effect unless both chambers agreed to cut it back, and House opponents vowed to roll it back to zero whether Wright wins or loses...
...while Bush has promised a balanced budget, he also told voters last year he wanted to be the "education" president, and has hinted at more spending for child care programs and other new federal policies. Under a flexible freeze, Bush would have to cut equal amounts of spending in other areas to keep total spending frozen at inflationary levels...
...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...
According to Irving, Bush's pledges to keep defense spending at the inflation rate and not to cut Social Security leaves only $28 billion in spending increases for all other programs in the 1992 budget. Moreover, Irving says, Medicare--left untouched--will cost an additional $65 billion in that year. Unless Medicare or other programs are drastically cut, she says, the budget will continue to operate...