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Bush Wants Huge Increase in Defense Spending for New Budget, In Addition to $32
Billion He Received Last Year
NEWSWEEK
In the January 14 issue of Newsweek: An exclusive interview with the wife of an Al
Qaeda operative who was convicted of conspiracy in the trial of the bombings of the
U.S. embassies in Africa; an exclusive report from Afghanistan with the U.S. Special
Forces, the team that liberated Mazar-e Sharif that led to the fall of other cities and the
collapse of Taliban rule; a report on the economy with a discussion on whether or not
things are going to get better soon; the anatomy of a figure skating routine and movie
critic David Ansen's top 15 movies of 2001. (PRNewsFoto)[JA]
NEW YORK, NY USA 01/06/2002
Daschle Looks at Budget Debate as 'Bush-Daschle Referendum,' Friend Says;
If Dems. Strengthen Hold on Senate, 'He'll Call That a Mandate to Run
For President'
NEW YORK, Jan. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- President George W. Bush, in his new
budget proposal, wants a huge increase (about $30 billion) in defense
spending, on top of the $32 billion he asked for (and got) last year, Newsweek
reports in the current issue. Together, that's a 20 percent hike in two years
-- "the most significant rebuilding of the military since the early '80s,"
budget director Mitch Daniels tells Newsweek.
(Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20020106/NYSU001 )
Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge got "everything he asked for," says
Daniels, which means more than doubling -- from $13 billion to $30 billion --
spending on programs under Ridge's purview. Everything else will be held to
"inflation-only" increases, reports Chief Political Correspondent Howard
Fineman in the January 14 issue of Newsweek (on newsstands Monday, January 7).
An exception: a new prescription-drug plan for lower-income patients. And
unlike Bill Clinton's last few budgets, Bush's uses payroll-tax (Social
Security) money for other purposes.
For Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, he's looking at the budget debate
"as a Bush-Daschle referendum," says one close friend. Last week, Daschle
claimed the return of the deficit to the federal budget wasn't due to
Sept. 11, but to the tax-cut measure. Daschle, who is advised by a network of
former aides who meet every Friday, is tracking this year's Senate races,
telling key money-men which candidates to take seriously, and travels to
fund-raisers. "If the Democrats strengthen their hold on the Senate, he'll
call that a mandate to run for president," says the friend.
(Read Newsweek's news releases at http://www.Newsweek.MSNBC.com.
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