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Reid blasts Bush's Medicare cuts
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid called President Bush's $2.77 trillion budget, which was released Monday, "Republican corruption on display."
In a statement released before the budget was made public, Reid, D-Nev., attacked the president for cutting Medicare and other programs. He said that the elderly were already familiar with "the price of corruption" from wrestling with the president's Medicare prescription plan.
"Now the President's priority is to protect those special interest profits while jeopardizing access to care for those same seniors," Reid said.
The budget aims to reduce the growth of Medicare spending by $36 billion in the next five years, mainly by limiting increases in hospital payments and freezing payments to nursing homes.
Most of Bush's attempted cuts in domestic programs last year were restored by Congress, which could be even more likely in a year when the entire House and one-third of the Senate face elections.
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