Bush sends Congress $3.1 trillion budget

Hello on this Monday, the 4 day of February 2008. I'm Kristin Volk with a UPI Headline Update.

Congress received a $3.1 trillion budget from President Bush earlier today. The proposal, for the 2009 fiscal year, would provide a big boost in defense spending and protect his signature tax cuts. It would save in the area of government health care, by slowing the growth of Medicare and Medicaid. However, Bush's spending blueprint would still generate huge budget deficits...about $400 billion for this year and next. Democrats attacked his plan saying the budget leads to more deficit, debt, tax cuts and more cutbacks in critical services.

A new poll shows Senator Hillary Clinton losing ground to Senator Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination. This comes on the eve of the critical Super Tuesday nominating contests. The two are now virtually tied, which indicates the New York Senator has lost a comfortable lead nationally that she's held for months. Analysts say endorsements from Oprah Winfrey, Maria Shriver, and Caroline Kennedy has given Obama a lot of momentum in this campaign. On the Republican side, the survey shows Arizona senator John McCain as the clear Republican front-runner.

One person is dead following a suicide blast earlier today at an Israeli shopping center.
Eleven others are wounded. An Israeli police officer may have prevented a second suicide bombing from happening in the same place when the officer shot a man wearing an explosives belt. That man had been knocked down by the initial blast. A number of Palestinian militant groups have claimed responsibility for the attack. The attack was the first in Israel in more than a year.

And the New York Giants scored a last-minute touchdown over the New England Patriots to win last night's Super Bowl, 17 to 14. The upset shattered the Patriots' hope of becoming the first team since 1972 to complete a National Football League season undefeated. The win gives New York its first NFL title since 1991. Giants' quarterback Eli Manning was named the game's Most Valuable Player, a year after his brother, Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning, took the same honor.

That's all for now. Thanks for watching today's news update and join us tomorrow for another headline.

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[NJRocks281]

wrong, its 100,000. The UN throws in a lot of other bullshit into those stats. go to iraqbodycount dot o r g

[saadhasan15]

you are the most retarded piece of caked on shit fuck ever....united nations statistics..1, 127, 000 civillian deaths in Iraq...you fucking piece of trash..the un did their job bitch they concluded there were no weapons of mass destruction, the country was attacked based on no evidence..turds like you need to go in the gas chamber.

[NJRocks281]

ok fucktard, first a million people didn't die. 100,000 did. They died because they have been killing each other for the past 5 years. Go read a fucking newspaper. Second, if the UN had been able to do their job, America would have never had to invade the place.

[saadhasan15]

how is the war not illegal..first of all this war based on evidence that didn't exist..oops i killed a million people..oops i sacrificed 4000 americans...oops i caused a civil war..wow yeah i guess its not illegal cause i made a mistake.

[NJRocks281]

first the war is not illegal you prick, second you going to college at Columbia sums you up nicely. I need not continue.

[barbcinque]

im a liberal educated at columbia university and with my second masters from nyu. bush needs to face criminal charges and held responsible for this illegal war. secondly, this is a democracy and the majority of the people have been and will continue to be against this war. this is not a dictatorship.

as a right winger you protect the lives of the unborn but could care less about the thousands losing their lives over oil. wake up.

[murph1329]

LOL you're such a stupid uneducated liberal, but then again aren't they all

- WW2 defense spending as a percentage of the GDP was 37.5%

- Defense spending as a percentage of the GDP under Clinton was 3.7%

- Bush is asking for 4.5% of the GDP for defense spending

^^^^FACTS^^^^

[redsolardragon1320]

i'm quiting my job, i'll be marching to washington and take a stand, we need numbers and to make contact with each other, the main stream media will have to take notice. how great is your job? do you have a job? are you broke? mostly? do you think it's becuz you don't work hard enough? march! be seen, heard and counted! the time is coming, help make a change in our country for the better. housing the economy, our soldiers, our job n wage, OUR FREEDOMS, America Wake Up! The Time Is NOW live free!

[dilostondiuqil]

GEORGE BUSH must face criminal charges in the HAGUE for war crimes and be HANGED...thats the least you can do to bring PEACE to this WORLD...