Friday, April 5, 2013

Obama budget to offer program cuts, seek deficit deal: official

U.S. President Obama smiles as he prepares to board Marine One to a Democratic fund raiser in San FranciscoBy Mark Felsenthal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will offer cuts to Social Security and other entitlement programs in a budget proposal aimed at swaying Republicans to compromise on a deficit-reduction deal, a senior administration official said on Friday. Under a proposal that would cut the deficit by $1.8 trillion over 10 years, the president will offer to apply a less generous measure of inflation to calculate cost-of-living increases, the official said on condition of anonymity. ...


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