Bush Seeks $1.9B For Disaster Relief, Wildfires, NASA

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WASHINGTON (AP)

President Bush asked Congress on Monday for an additional $ 1.9 billion to cover more of this year's costs of rebuilding from natural disasters, combatting wildfires and investigating the space shuttle Columbia disaster.

Republican leaders want to move the measure quickly through the House and Senate without any added expenditures, in hopes of heeding an agreement they have reached with Bush to limit spending. But with pressures to provide more money for the AmeriCorps national service organization and other programs, it was unclear whether they would succeed.

The White House is seeking funds for the remaining weeks of the government's budget year, which runs through Sept. 30. All the money would come by enlarging the federal deficit, which is already expected to set a record this year and exceed $400 billion. ---


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1. states going broke, social programs being cut

* just keeps spending it like our money is made out of thin air

Oh, thats right, Greenspan and the federal reserve really do print paper money out of thin air.