Some of this is welfare spending intended to cut poverty.
The House and Senate negotiators also agreed to scale back spending intended to help provide health insurance to the unemployed.
Mr. Hollande, in contrast, is pledging to increase taxes on the wealthy to pay for significant new spending intended to spur the economy.
Italy's 2015 budget offered an example: provision for welfare spending intended to ease the passage of the Renzi government's controversial labour market reform.
The Campbell Soup Company, the world's biggest soup maker, said today that its first-quarter profit would miss estimates because of higher spending intended to increase demand.
Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, said the program reeks of wasteful government spending intended to help one special interest group, and he has vowed to "deep-fry" the catfish program.
Three of those measures, passed in a seven-month stretch in 2008-9, lifthe the debt ceiling by $2.3 trillion to accommodate spending intended to bail out banks, aid struggling homeowners and jolt the economy out of recession.
As President Obama urges Congress to enact a package of tax cuts and new government spending intended to revive growth and create jobs, one crucial corner of the American economy -- manufacturing -- has largely fallen off Washington's radar screen.
Most of it came from the 2010 World Cup: television rights yielded $2.4 billion and marketing rights $1.1 billion.Redistribution in FIFA's fief is called "development" spending, intended mainly to improve facilities and coaching in poor countries, which amounted to $794m in 2007-10.
On Thursday, the Senate Finance Committee is expected to approve a $67 billion package of tax cuts and new spending intended to stimulate the economy, which has been teetering for months on the edge of recession.
At issue is the huge package of tax breaks and government spending intended to halt the economy's downward spiral and spur a recovery that is the centerpiece of Mr. Obama's agenda.
