How convenient that most seem to ignore that CONGRESS is the one who passes the budget.
"The spending bill, which covers all discretionary spending except defence, will come to $397.4bn (£246.7bn), $13bn more than the Bush administration wanted.
The long and difficult budget process gave plenty of scope for individual Congressmen to add wasteful - or "pork-barrel" - projects that would help their own districts, threatening to hold up the passage of the entire bill. "
From BBC news
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/2763267.stm (that came up first when I did a Google search)
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Ah, but minor details such as that doesn't support their anti-Bush agenda.