Bush plans to end program which aids victims of violence and abuse [View All]

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President Bush wants to end funding for a program that aids victims of violence, a budget-cutting proposal that two Republican lawmakers from Tennessee said they oppose for the second straight year.

Victim rights advocates say that for the second year in a row, that money is in danger of disappearing.

The Bush administration's recommended fiscal 2007 budget would end funding for victims assistance programs by moving about $1.3 billion to the general treasury. That would leave a zero balance by 2008.

Last year more than $10 million went to Tennessee from two victims assistance programs started by the 1984 federal law.

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