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Obama proposes $3.99t budget

REUTERS, Washington
PRESIDENT Barack Obama on Monday proposed a $3.99 trillion budget for fiscal year 2016 that sets up a battle with Republicans over programs to boost the middle class that are funded by higher taxes on corporations and wealthy Americans.
The budget foresees a $474 billion deficit, which is 2.5 percent of US gross domestic product. It projects deficits stabilizing at that rate over a 10-year period, senior administration officials said.
Obama's budget fleshes out proposals from his State of the Union address and helps highlight Democratic priorities for the last quarter of his presidency and the beginning of the 2016 presidential campaign.
But it is as much a political document as a fiscal road map and would require approval from the Republican-controlled Congress to go into effect.
"Our hope is that by laying out ... a clear economic vision centered around the middle class and economic growth, that we'll be able to have a productive conversation (with Republicans) and make progress over the course of the year," an administration offi-
cial said on Sunday, previewing the budget's release.
Republicans have said they see room for compromise in areas such as tax reform and infrastructure, but many of Obama's programs, which were rolled out in the weeks before the budget's release, have landed with a thud.
"When... he devotes his time and energy to talking about the new tax-and-spend policies that progressives like and Republicans universally
oppose, he signals to Congress that he is once again looking to aigue rather than to legislate," said Keith Hennessey, a former economic adviser to Republican President George W Bush.
Democrats, however, viewed the budget as a statement of their priorities and a chance to demonstrate they represent the party that champions middle-income Americans.
"(It) affords him an opportunity to contrast his vision of
helping the middle class with the Republican Congress' approach of exacerbating inequality, ignoring the middle class and making the burdens of those who want to enter it even greater," said NeeraTanden, president of the Center for American Progress, which has close ties to the White House.
INFRASTRUCTURE, TAX REFORM
The budget achieves some $1.8 trillion in deficit reduction over the next 10 years, officials said, through healthcare, tax and immigration reform, but the forecast assumes Republican support for Obama's programs, which is unlikely.
Republicans have blocked immigration reform legislation in the House of Representatives, for example, and the budget assumes passage of such a bill.
The administration foresees a continuation of the decline in unemployment, forecasting a rate of 5.4 percent in 2015. The rate currently stands at 5.6 percent.
It also proposes a new infrastructure bank, a 6 percent increase in research and development, and a controversial consolidation of US government agencies. Obama has previously proposed combining trade agencies, but the proposal fizzled.