Education and Clean Air get raided

Lovely.

Among the victims were Bush priorities like education, which would grow by less than 2 percent to nearly $57 billion. The National Endowment for Democracy, which buttresses democratic institutions abroad, got $60 million of the $80 million he wanted, while his Futuregen program to promote clean-burning power plants got $18 million -- one-thirteenth of what the White House proposed.

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And you know that whatever the White House proposed was probably way too little to begin with... or it was artifically high so they could look like the good guys while that mean 'ol House took it out (nevermind who controls it... don't pay attention to the man behind the curtain!)