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Cutting Further in the Budget As promised during the budget battle, the Administration plans to cut an additional $15 billion from the spending plan passed last August. The savings are expected to come from trimming waste in the Federal Government...
WHITE HOUSE RATS (NO, NOT SUNUNU) Washington -- Haircutgate, the budget battle, Somalia -- and now rats, hundreds of them. White House aides going home after dark have had to bang on their briefcases and bags to scare the beasts away. The 165 traps that have been strategically positioned around the mansion grounds by the White House gardener -- and baited with environmentally sound poison -- have done little to stem the invasion. Mrs. Clinton has taken over health care; is this a job for Socks...
...that Clinton's opponents are scoring points in the nascent debate, while a growing number of Americans are left with the impression that the Administration cannot translate its grand vision into workable policy. It does not help that the Administration keeps making embarrassing revisions to its original health-care budget. Just last week, the White House was forced to acknowledge that its plan will be more expensive than anticipated -- by as much as $21 billion over five years. That followed the disclosure days earlier that the White House miscalculated by several billion dollars the cost of subsidies for covering early...
...thousands from neighboring Ciudad Juarez. By scaring off Mexicans before they attempt to cross the river, agents have reduced their arrests from as many as 1,000 a day to an average of 135. El Paso officials envision giant savings in aliens' social costs -- now 20% of the budget -- if the border remains sealed. The crackdown has drawn overwhelming support from El Paso, which is itself 72% Hispanic. ''The rampant criminal problems in our downtown are gone,'' boasted Mayor Larry Francis. ''The majority of El Pasoans are stating that this should have been done long ago.'' Motorists tied green ribbons...
...South Carolina State Senator David Thomas, a Republican, publicly condemned the campaign after reading about it on The Palmetto Scoop, a South Carolina political blog. He also called for an audit of the tourism department's advertising budget, which in 2008 will run to approximately $10 million...