WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration, mindful of public anxiety over the government's mushrooming debt, is shifting emphasis from big-spending policies to deficit reduction. Domestic agencies have been told to brace for a spending freeze or cuts of up to 5 percent as part of a midterm election-year push to rein in record budget shortfalls.... By TOM RAUM and ANDREW TAYLOR Read the full story.
This is just a sign that after health care and cap and trade, they will push for amnesty for illegals in 2010 and claim it will be either deficit neutral or save the taxpayers money somehow, or a revenue increase.