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- <title>
- Apr. 19, 1993: And Now the Numbers
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Apr. 19, 1993 Los Angeles
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 16
- NATION
- And Now the Numbers
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- <body>
- <p>Clinton's first official budget reveals more shifts than cuts
- </p>
- <p> This was the budget plan, you'll remember, that would cut the
- federal deficit in half--to $205 billion--by 1997. When the
- numbers were released in the White House's first official budget
- proposal last week, they made clear that Bill Clinton is
- counting heavily on new taxes, particularly in the first two
- years, to do the job. In its first year, the budget does not cut
- government spending at all but simply shifts funds from defense,
- energy and agriculture to health and other social programs.
- </p>
- <p> The plan will be a tough sell for Democrats, who must find
- $66.7 billion more in cuts to meet last month's congressional
- budget agreement. Republicans are scornful. "If you like higher
- taxes, you're going to love this budget," scoffs Senate minority
- leader Bob Dole, architect of a G.O.P. filibuster that has
- already stalled Clinton's $16.3 billion economic stimulus
- package. Even a proposed $21 billion business-investment tax
- credit is in jeopardy. One way or another, Clinton seems doomed
- to compromise.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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