Bush's budget disaster for New Yorkers.

This budget is a huge disaster for New York. Here are just a few of the cuts New York faces under Bush's 2006 budget:

Homeland Security

• The Bush 2006 budget cuts $420 million to state and local funding for homeland security, including a $49.4 million cut for New York. These cuts will take police and firefighters off your streets.
• The Bush budget cuts the COPS program, which has put 11,927 officers on New York streets, by 96 percent.

Health Care

• The Bush budget cuts $45 billion from Medicaid, enough to provide health care to 1.8 million children. New York's share of these cuts is $6.1 billion.
• Bush's budget cuts the very same community and rural health care programs he touted during the campaign.

Education

• Bush underfunds his own No Child Left Behind Act by $13.1 billion in his budget. In New York, that means a shortfall of $1 billion, leaving behind 296,648 New York children.
• Bush promised to fund Pell Grants in his State of the Union address, but his budget is $6.6 billion short. That's $508.8 million less than what's needed in New York, a real burden for the 358,375 students in New York who receive the grants.

Other Priorities

• Bush cuts $9.3 million from New York job training programs in his 2006 budget.
• The Bush budget would require many veterans to pay a new $250 annual "user fee" to use the Veterans Administration health care system, and would double the prescription drug co-payment for the 1,361,164 New York veterans.
• Bush cuts New York clean water programs by $42.7 million.
• Bush's 2006 budget also cuts the Low Income Heating Energy Assistance Program -- which helps low-income families afford heating fuel in the winter -- by $234.4 million, including $29.3 million cut for New York residents.

And Bush's irresponsible budget is a record $427 billion in the red, increasing each New York family's share of the federal debt by $37,870.

Take Action

Take action today to help stop Bush's disastrous budget in its tracks. Write a letter to the editor of your local paper explaining why Bush's budget is such a disaster for America.

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