NBC Nightly News - 2001-04-09
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[0:02] And home of the brave. The worst naval
[0:05] disaster in American history, now the
[0:07] survivors who lived to tell about
[0:13] From NBC News world headquarters in New
[0:16] York, this is NBC Nightly News with Tom
[0:19] Brokaw.
[0:21] Good evening. President Bush has decided
[0:23] how he wants to spend your money, almost
[0:26] two trillion dollars. That's a lot of
[0:28] money. But in the boom years before the
[0:30] economy went into a dive, Congress was
[0:33] on a spending binge and the president
[0:35] wants to force some reductions. As you
[0:37] might expect, that's bringing immediate
[0:39] protest, especially from Democrats who
[0:42] think that he's hurting social and
[0:43] environmental programs way too much.
[0:46] But as NBC's Campbell Brown reports from
[0:48] the White House tonight, the president
[0:50] is aiming his budget at tax cuts, not at
[0:52] Democrats. Campbell?
[0:54] Tom, this is when the battle with
[0:56] Congress really began to when Americans
[0:58] find out what they'll have to give up to
[1:00] get the biggest tax cut in 20 years.
[1:04] Dozens lining up today for a first look
[1:06] at the details of the president's nearly
[1:08] two trillion dollar budget. A plan even
[1:10] he says is designed around giving
[1:12] Americans a 1.6 trillion dollar tax cut.
[1:16] Budget puts the taxpayers first.
[1:18] And that's exactly where they belong.
[1:20] But to give taxpayers relief, Bush
[1:22] slashes popular government programs.
[1:25] Cuts for 10 of 25 government agencies.
[1:28] Bush's goal, limiting much of government
[1:30] spending to just a 4% increase, half of
[1:33] what President Clinton got last year. On
[1:35] the chopping block, community policing,
[1:37] the program championed by Clinton to
[1:39] hir