Obama budget would cut or end 120 government programs, saving as much as $17B

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Another campaign promise addressed!


Obama budget would cut or end 120 government programs

By David Lightman | McClatchy Newspapers



WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama plans to unveil Thursday a fiscal 2010 budget full of details on his plans to save as much as $17 billion by cutting — and in some cases ending — about 120 government programs.

The goal, said White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, is "identifying and ending programs that are unneeded and don't work."

The most likely targets include a host of education and housing programs, as well as smaller efforts to deal with mine cleanup, cotton storage and community leadership training.

Earlier this year, for instance, the federal Office of Management and Budget said that it wanted to end the Resource Conservation and Development Program, which has provided such community leadership training since 1962.

"After 47 years," OMB said in a statement, "this goal has been accomplished."

The proposals are expected to be included in a new White House book of terminations, reductions and savings, as well as a separate "appendix" detailing line by line spending. Next week, the administration expects to release a volume of "analytical perspectives" explaining its decisions more fully, as well as new tables outlining its projections for spending, taxes and deficits.

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