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Transcript: United States Governors Complain Bush Administration Indadequately Funds Federally Mandated Programs
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- Special Report with Brit Hume (Fox News Network)
- Article date:
- February 24, 2003
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HUME: President Bush is vowing to work with America's governors, promising
his proposed tax cuts would spur their troubled economies, and that
his administration would work with them to improve healthcare, education,
and the nation's security. But the president insisted keeping federal
spending in check must be a priority.
Fox News chief political correspondent Carl Cameron reports.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) CARL CAMERON, FOX NEWS CORRESPONDENT (voice-over):
With the federal budget facing deficits in excess of $300 billion
both this year and next, President Bush told the nation's governors
not to count on Uncle Sam to solve their state budget woes.
BUSH: We've got an ...