Associated Press Andrew Tyler via glocester county times new jersey.
"The spiraling growth of medicare and the high cost of renewing President Bush's tax cuts are squeezing popular education, health, housing and anti-poverty programs in the budget blueprint that he hands lawmakers Monday.
Even with difficult-to-digest proposals to curb Medicare costs, and kill programs to repair delapidated public housing, fund community action agencies and provide food to the elderly poor, Bush's $3 trillion budget will project deficits around $400 billion this year and next."
Ahh yeah! Poverty.