白宫官员说，奥巴马政府即将公布一套新的削减政府开支的提议，削减总额将达到170亿美元。
奥巴马星期四在白宫说，政府再也负担不起那种认为赤字没什么，浪费也不是问题的花钱方式了。他说，有很多支出缺乏效率。
奥巴马政府曾经表示，要“一行行”地仔细审议，削减明年的政府预算。白宫提供的名单上有联邦政府的121个工作项目将要取消或者削减经费。奥巴马说，节省的钱积少成多。
削减的这些经费只占国会上个月通过的3万5000亿美元预算的很小一部分。过去削减这些项目的努力遭到议员们的抵抗。
众议院共和党领袖博纳说，共和党议员建议削减的，比这要多得多。大约一半的削减项目为国防项目，另一半则为国内项目。
U.S. President Barack Obama has unveiled a new set of proposed budget cuts totaling about $17 billion.
At the White House Thursday, Mr. Obama said the government can no longer afford to spend as if deficits do not matter, and waste is not a problem. He said there is a lot of money being spent ineffectively.
The White House released a list of 121 federal programs to be cut or reduced in Mr. Obama’s “line-by-line” effort to trim the budget for next year. Mr. Obama said the savings add up.
The cuts add up to only a tiny percentage of the $3.5 trillion budget approved by Congress last month. Lawmakers have resisted past efforts to cut the same programs.
House Minority Leader John Boehner said his fellow congressional Republicans “respectfully suggest” that far more should be cut. About half of the cuts are to come from defense programs, and the rest from domestic programs.