Pentagon Big Winner in Bush Budget Plan

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The Pentagon is the big winner in President Bush's proposed budget for next year, while domestic items such as aid to schools and grants to local governments will get only the slightest of increases.

Medicare and the Medicaid, the health program for the poor and disabled, would shoulder modest but politically difficult cost curbs in the budget the White House is submitting to Congress on Monday.

Some $18 billion in budget savings would come from farm programs over five years.


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''I think that sounds like the president is declaring war on us and the poor people in this country,'' said Rep. Pete Stark, D-Calif.

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