With the country still struggling to shake off the effects of a recession, he proposed a substantial increase in the minimum wage as well as billions on public works to raise the demand for workers.

But the Agriculture Department was able to propose billions in increased spending on some programs because of expectations that prices for commodities like corn, soybeans and wheat would be much higher.

Speaking of big spenders, Mr. Corzine, you propose spending billions on health care for the uninsured, long-term care for the elderly and disabled, education, a prescription drug benefit under Medicare and other programs.

Finally, she created an advisory panel on school financing that proposed shifting billions in teacher pension burdens from the state to local district taxpayers, an idea Mr. Florio pushed to his eventual regret.

Earlier this year he proposed billions of dollars in increased sales, income and tobacco taxes, but abandoned them after it became clear that he could not muster the votes to enact them.

The vice chiefs offered their ideas but were not given a veto over the analysis, which proposed reallocating billions of dollars and included specific recommendations, like canceling further purchases of the Air Force F-111 plane.

Both John Faso and Eliot Spitzer are proposing billions of dollars worth of tax cuts if they are elected governor, calling New Yorkers overtaxed and economically challenged.

A1 Clinton to Unveil Budget Plan President Clinton will release a $1.766 trillion Federal budget blueprint for 2000 today that proposes billions of dollars in new spending while preaching fiscal conservatism.

UKIP proposes "tens of billions" of cuts to taxation, along with a further £77bn of cuts to the public sector in order to reduce the deficit.

President Clinton will release a $1.766 trillion Federal budget blueprint for 2000 on Monday that proposes billions of dollars in new spending while preaching fiscal conservatism.