"We may find the amounts cut from programs most sensitive to us might be able to be adjusted," she said.

It cut $734 million from domestic programs and $124 million in foreign aid.

When oil prices were falling, Mr. Zedillo cut about $1 billion from social programs.

Officials there said they would have to cut $23 million from existing programs.

Mostly I just cut and pasted from programs I'd already developed.

The reduction would be part of the $5.9 million that the Mayor has proposed cutting from programs for the elderly across the city.

It proposes to cut $77 billion from domestic discretionary programs like road building and environmental protection.

So Republicans would have to cut from social programs or other discretionary spending that the Administration has tried to protect.

According to today's report, the $11.5 billion that would be cut from military programs would amount to a 6.3 percent cut in the military budget.

The panel also cut $601,570 from various mostly "noninstructional" programs.