Surprise! we're cutting your budget!

Budget Plan Includes Steep Cuts

WASHINGTON -- President Bush sent Congress a $2.57 trillion budget plan Monday that seeks deep spending cuts across a wide swath of government from reducing subsidies paid to the nation's farmers, cutting health-care payments for poor people and veterans and trimming spending on the environment and education.

"It's budget that sets priorities," Mr. Bush said after a meeting with his cabinet. "It's a budget that reduces and eliminates redundancy. It's a budget that's a lean budget." The president acknowledged it would be difficult to eliminate popular programs but he said programs must prove their worth. "I'm very optimistic."

Boy, there's a shocker.