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Programs Bush Wants to Cut or Kill By The Associated Press Thu Feb 9, 8:21 PM ET The 141 programs that President Bush proposed to eliminate or cut in his 2007 budget, with potential savings in millions: ADVERTISEMENT TERMINATIONS: AGRICULTURE Microbiological data program, $6 million. Community Connect broadband grants, $9 million. Commodity supplemental food program, $107 million. Research and extension grant earmarks, $196 million. Ocean freight differential grants, $77 million. Forest service economic action program, $10 million. High cost energy grants, $26 million. Public broadcast grants, $5 million. Watershed protection and flood prevention operations, $75 million. Total $511 million ___...

House Republican leaders have moved from balking at big cuts in Medicaid and other programs to embracing them, driven by pent-up anger from fiscal conservatives concerned about runaway spending and the leadership's own weakening hold on power. Beginning this week, the House GOP lawmakers will take steps to cut as much as $50 billion from the fiscal 2006 budget for health care for the poor, food stamps and farm supports, as well as considering across-the-board cuts in other programs. Only last month, then-House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) and other GOP leaders quashed demands within their party for budget cuts...

President Bush unfurled his 2,300-page, $2.57 trillion budget proposal--the largest federal budget in history--on Monday morning, in a press availability with reporters, and at some point someone asked him what he thought about the document. "It is a budget that sets priorities," the president said, before adding, "it's a budget that focuses on results." Less than 24 hours later, however, the Washington press corps, no doubt after reading all the budget's 2,300 pages, and no doubt after digesting the various expenditure tables and deficit projections and other fiscal gobbledygook included therein, reached a very, very different conclusion. Namely: The 2006...

What does Kim Jong Il really want? No one knows, of course—even the best intelligence on North Korea is sketchy—but it's a fair bet that the diminutive dictator wants to stay alive. Kim is said to be desperately worried. He is believed to move around a lot, traveling from palace to palace as Saddam Hussein once did. He disappears entirely from view for weeks. Kim even occasionally removes his pictures from buildings in Pyongyang, the capital city, in order to promote the idea that collective leadership is displacing his "Great Leader" cult. (He may be hoping to avoid a U.S....