奧巴馬將提交聯邦預算案

U.S. President Barack Obama is set to unveil a proposed federal budget for 2012 that will seek to cut the federal deficit by $1.1 trillion over 10 years.

Mr. Obama is sending his $3.5 trillion budget to Congress Monday, as the U.S. faces a record deficit of more than $1.6 trillion this year.

White House budget chief Jacob Lew said Sunday the proposal would cut the deficit in half by the end of Mr. Obama's first term in 2013.

The proposed budget reductions are more than double the $400 billion of cuts in non-essential programs the president unveiled in his State of the Union address last month. The cuts include trimming energy subsidies for the poor and some infrastructure programs.

The president is also seeking to increase revenues by reducing tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans.

On Saturday, Mr. Obama said the budget plan "asks Washington to live within its means."

Republicans have criticized the proposal, saying it does little to reduce the deficit. The Republicans want to slash domestic spending to the levels of 2008, the year Mr. Obama was elected.

美國總統奧巴馬計劃將公佈擬議中的2012年聯邦預算，謀求在10年內把聯邦赤字減少1.1萬億美元。

星期一，奧巴馬即將向國會提交他的3.5萬億美元的預算，同時美國今年面臨着創記錄的超過1.6萬億美元的赤字。

白宮預算辦公室主任雅各布.盧星期日說，這項議案將在奧巴馬的第一個任期在2013年結束前削減一半的赤字。

這項擬議中的削減預算比奧巴馬上個月在國情諮文中公佈的削減非必要項目開支四千億美元的幅度大一倍以上。削減預算中包括窮人的能源補貼和一些基礎設施項目。

奧巴馬總統還尋求通過向最富有的美國人減少稅收優惠政策來增加財稅收入。

星期六，奧巴馬說，預算計劃要求華盛頓“量入爲出”。

共和黨人批評這項議案，說它在減少赤字方面做得太少。共和黨人希望將國內開支削減到2008年奧巴馬當選時的水平。