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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama described his expansive budget proposal on Saturday as "a threat to the status quo in Washington" and cast himself as a populist crusader willing to do battle with special interests to expand health care, curb pollution and improve education.
"I didn't come here to do the same thing we've been doing or to take small steps forward," Obama said in his weekly radio and Internet address. "I came to provide the sweeping change that this country demanded when it went to the polls in November. That is the change this budget starts to make, and that is the change I'll be fighting for in the weeks ahead."See the full content of this document
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Obama's Out for 'Sweeping Change'
The address hinted at the strategy the White House intends to employ to push for the spending plan released last week, a return to a more traditional Democratic approach of positioning...
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