Bush's cutbacks facing long odds [View All]

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http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/politics/3057799

WASHINGTON - It isn't hard to understand why few in Washington are taking President Bush's proposal to kill or cut 154 programs very seriously.


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"It ought to be expanded, not eliminated," Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl says of aid to states with imprisoned criminal immigrants, a $300 million program Bush wants to eliminate.


"We'll fight it with everything that's in us," Pennsylvania Rep. John Peterson says of the president's plan to end vocational education subsidies running $1.2 billion annually.


"It does a lot of good, it reaches out to young people," Ohio Sen. Mike DeWine says of a $2 million program Bush wants to erase, this one supporting teaching about the underground railroad for escaped slaves.


Kyl, Peterson and DeWine are all loyal Republicans.