This month, he made good on that promise, proposing a budget for 2003 that would raise federal spending on "abstinence only" education by $33 million, to $135 million.
In Jefferson County, Colo., adjacent to Denver, Sheriff John Stone proposed a budget for 2002 that asks county officials to add 35 people to his current force of 596.
The problem for some of these cities is that Gov. John Rowland proposed a budget for the coming year that shifts a portion of casino revenues from a local tax relief program to the state's primary education aid program.
This was visible this week, as House Republicans proposed a budget for the Pentagon of a similar size to the one suggested by Mr Obama coming in way below spending levels urged by some Republican senators.
"How," one asked, "can you set up but not fund the second-largest department in the government?" A White House official said tonight that although the administration would face some transition costs, it expected to cover them through existing budgets before proposing a budget for the new agency for 2004.
FACING a dire state economic forecast and increased security costs related to the threat of terrorism, Westchester County Executive Andrew J. Spano has proposed a budget for 2002 that would increase the property tax levy by 9.5percentthethe largest county tax increase in 12 years.
Until 1955, when Mayor Richard J. Daley won a change in state law, it was the Council rather than the mayor that proposed a budget for the city, said Dick W. Simpson, a political science professor at the University of Illinois-Chicago and author of a Council history, "Rogues, Rebels and Rubber Stamps" (Westview Press, 2001).
While President Bush certainly did lose control of spending during his Administration, in February 2008 he proposed a budget for fiscal 2009 with just a 3% spending increase.
