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Obama issues budget veto threat

  • 02-16-2011
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By Alyson Klein/Education Week

President Barack Obama just issued a veto threat on the House Republicans' spending plan, which would cut education funding by nearly $5 billion for the current fiscal year. Here are the exact words from the administration: "The Administration is committed to cutting spending and reducing the deficit so that current government spending does not add to the debt and has put forward a plan to do just that. However, the Administration does not support deep cuts that will undermine our ability to out-educate, out-build, and out-innovate the rest of the world. (more...)

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