Denver, Colorado - According to a new analysis by the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress, President Bush's 2008 budget will cut millions of dollars from critical education, health care, homeland security, and law enforcement programs in Colorado. While the President's $2.9 trillion budget does little to address the rising economic insecurities that middle class Americans are facing, it slashes millions from programs that are essential to thousands of Coloradans. President Bush's new budget shows that he continues to ignore the will of the American people and by advancing a radical agenda that has already been rejected by the vast majority of the American people. After all, a Newsweek poll last week found that 58 percent of American simply want the Bush Presidency to end.

As in previous years, President Bush has tried to sneak his Social Security privatization plan into the budget, which would undermine the retirement security of 400,000 Coloradans. The President's budget request seeks to eliminate the Community Oriented Policing Service (COPS) program and the Justice Assistance Grants program, which together provided more than $5 million in funding to help keep Colorado communities safe. While the Democrats in Congress have saved the Community Development Block Grant Program from elimination in each of the last two years, President Bush has it on the chopping block again, risking $11.3 million in community development funds for Colorado.

"President Bush's budget shows that he still has no interest in listening to the will of the American people," said Colorado Democratic Party Chair Pat Waak. "Last November, the voters demanded real change and real leaders who put working families first. Yet, just like all his previous budgets, President Bush's budget this year offers more of the same cuts to programs that are critical to Colorado's working families. If Colorado Republicans like Tom Tancredo, Marilyn Musgrave and Doug Lamborn are serious about doing the work that Coloradans sent them to Washington to do, they should join Colorado Democrats in fighting President Bush's reckless and irresponsible budget cuts."