Bush warns against ‘tax and spend’
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President Bush warned Congress that he would use his veto power to stop runaway spending. “The American people do not want to return to the days of tax-and-spend policies,” Bush said in his radio address.
The House last week passed a $37-billion budget for the Homeland Security Department, but Republicans rallied enough votes to uphold a veto.
The measure exceeds Bush’s request for the department by $2.1 billion.
Democrats noted that it contained money to hire 3,000 additional border agents, improve detection of explosives at airports and double the amount of cargo screened on passenger aircraft.
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