Bush Calls for Cuts in College Programs

President Bush has proposed slashing $760-million from programs that benefit colleges this year and using the savings to help cover a $3.1-billion shortfall in a program for closing and renovating military bases. But the proposal is considered dead on arrival in Congress.

Lawmakers, who would have to consent to the plan, have a long history of ignoring such requests, viewing them as interference with their power of the purse. The cuts would reduce appropriations that Congress approved

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