President Barack Obama’s 2010 budget proposal lifts all restrictions on the use of local government money for abortions in Washington and includes nearly $20 million for “permanent supportive housing programs” in the city and $12 million to keep the D.C. school voucher program alive.
The massive $3.4 trillion plan released Thursday includes some hits and misses for D.C. compared with previous years. Obama, for example, nixed a $7 million payment to the D.C. Public Library, a priority of the former administration. But he includes $42.2 million for public schools, $20 million for charter schools and $12.2 million for private school vouchers.
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