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Breaking Down the FY06 Budget
ResumeThe 442-page document has a lot of numbers that reveal Bush's vision and policy priorities. The two-and-a-half trillion dollar plan that seeks deep government spending cuts in the name of reducing the national debt.
Hear a discussion on what is and is not in the fiscal year 2006 budget proposal, and what it means for America's fiscal future.
Guests:
Mike Allen, congressional correspondent for The Washington Post.;
Isabel Sawhill, Vice President and Director of Economic Studies at The Brookings Institution.;
Eric Engen, research scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, where he studies tax and budget policy and the US economy.
This program aired on February 7, 2005.