The President has made clear from the start that he understands that he will not get every item in this proposal or in his budget proposal, that compromise requires tough choices from all sides.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

Yet, the numbers put in front of us through this budget proposal do not lie -- this budget takes us off that path and puts us into new and dangerous territory.

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We put this proposal in our budget, we keep on getting resistance, but we are going to keep on pushing to end tax breaks for companies that ship our jobs overseas and give those tax breaks to companies that create jobs right here in the United States of America. (Applause.) It's the right thing to do.

WHITEHOUSE: Creating New Jobs by Investing in High-Speed Rail

The utter predictability of it all is becoming comical, so comical in fact that the American Petroleum Institute (API) responded to this budget proposal filled with stale, debunked and retreaded energy-related proposals by retreading the same statement it had issued in response to the proposed budget submitted by President Obama last year.

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Since Congress did not act last year on this proposal, I am introducing it in this year's budget -- and I once again urge Congress to act on it.

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This budget proposal aims to control Social Security expenditures by calculating cost of living adjustments (COLA) in a way that proponents argue is a more accurate reflection of how prices for consumer goods fluctuate.

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