December 18, 2007
Threatened With a Presidential Veto, Democrats Slash Spending on Student Aid and Academic Research
Yielding to pressure from the White House, Democratic leaders in Congress have grudgingly agreed to slash domestic spending for 2008, shaving hundreds of millions of dollars from proposals they had made earlier to finance federal student aid and academic research, among other programs.
The cuts are contained in a sprawling $517-billion appropriations bill released late Sunday, which despite the cuts would preserve thousands of earmarks sought by lawmakers from both
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