The Senate vote is symbolic since the budget outline lacks the force of law.
This strategy has the added virtue of pressing Senate Democrats to pass legislation too, starting with its first budget outline in four years.
While the budget outline does not make specific program cuts, it would likely mean federal funding for most of these programs would be entirely eliminated.
Republicans believe they now have the votes to get the budget outline through the evenly divided Senate, which is expected to vote on the measure later Wednesday or Thursday.
Whatever spending that I had to take that was extraordinary that you took with me, including the Recovery Act, if we follow my budget outline, we will have taken care of, paid for what happened on our watch.
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But a presidential budget is essentially a detailed outline for Congress of what the President's priorities are.
Rather, it modeled generic tax cuts that follow the outline of what his budget describes.
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Tomorrow, the Bush Administration will unveil its outline for the defense budget.
The EU also launched an Excessive Deficit Procedure and requested that the government outline measures to sustainably reduce the budget deficit to under 3% of GDP.
But the IMF is still widely expected to outline policy recommendations that favour growth over tackling the budget deficit, fearing that the speed and depth of cuts is preventing growth.
In the speech, the president did not change the broad outline of the vision for the US space agency he first expounded in his 2011 federal budget request.
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