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Bush Plan Would Raise Deficit by $1.2 Trillion

Staff / Truthdig Mar 4, 2006 But this total does not include money for some relatively small costs--like the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan after this year. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Abramoff Got Indicted, and All We Got Was This Lousy $20 Gift Ban?

Molly Ivins / Truthdig Feb 21, 2006 Reform follows scandal as night the day, except in these sorry times, when it appears we may not get a nickel's worth of reform out of the entire Jack Abramoff saga. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Bush Sneaks Social Security Privatization Into Budget

Staff / Truthdig Feb 9, 2006 The president put in the $700-billion proposal without announcement or fanfare. | storyPerhaps he thought no one would notice? Maybe he missed the standing ovation Democrats gave the sinking of that scheme during his State of the Union speech? | video Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Kucinich Blasts Bush’s State of the Union

Blair Golson / Truthdig Feb 1, 2006 In an exclusive Truthdig podcast, Rep. Dennis Kucinich swings away at the president. Excerpt: "[Bush] hasn't gotten the message that all his underpinnings of the war have been knocked out. They're standing totally on lies." | podcast and transcript Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )