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  Obama orders agencies to slash budgets
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Last EditedRP  Jun 08, 2010 03:24pm
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AuthorLori Montgomery
News DateTuesday, June 8, 2010 07:00:00 PM UTC0:0
DescriptionThe White House is directing agencies to develop plans for trimming at least 5 percent from their budgets by identifying programs that do little to advance their missions or President Obama's agenda.

The request, made amid rising public anxiety over government spending, comes on top of a pledge by Obama this winter to freeze spending at most agencies for the next three years. In a joint memo to be delivered Tuesday morning, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and budget director Peter Orszag order agency heads to go further by listing the programs that "are least critical" to their overall goals.
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