WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush on Monday proposed a $2.5 trillion budget that slashes domestic programs from farm aid to housing grants for the poor, as he sought to curb budget deficits that have soared on his watch.
The plan would cut discretionary domestic spending outside national security by 0.7 percent for fiscal year 2006, in what the White House called the most austere budget proposal since the Reagan era.
Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of California called the proposals "really stupid" and "something you would expect from a man with a head up his ass". Bush, told of the Pelosi comments responded "tell her to calm down, I just work here. If she's got a real problem, she can talk to Cheney".
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