Obama To Ask Agency Heads For Budget Cuts

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Obama To Ask Agency Heads For Budget Cuts

WILL LESTER | April 18, 2009 07:34 AM EST | AP


WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said Saturday he will ask all of his department and agency heads for specific proposals for cutting their budgets at his Cabinet meeting early next week as he searches for ways to streamline government spending.

Obama, who is attending the Summit of the Americas in Trinidad this weekend, said in his weekly radio and Internet address that he would make the request for cuts Monday at a Cabinet meeting.

"In the coming weeks, I will be announcing the elimination of dozens of government programs shown to be wasteful or ineffective," he said. "In this effort, there will be no sacred cows and no pet projects. All across America, families are making hard choices, and it's time their government did the same."

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[msongs]

1. repubs want cuts. ok. cut programs in THEIR districts :-) problem solved nt