June 18, 2007 9:31AM 

# Bush’s Budget Chutzpah 

By [David Boaz](https://www.cato.org/people/david-boaz) 

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[In his weekly radio address](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/16/AR2007061600413.html), President Bush said that the Democrats in Congress have “passed a budget that would … pile on hundreds of billions of dollars in new government spending over the next five years.”

Can they beat the record of the past five years?

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