...it's plain false. The Bush folks prefer the opposite conclusion. They reach it by examining half the evidence. Mitchell Daniels, the budget director, goes to some lengths in the blueprint to decry the recent surge in tax revenues relative...

...request. "I don't think we're having too much success so far" in cutting the projects, White House budget chief Mitchell Daniels conceded in an interview last week. Facing this early deluge, the administration has begun to play down Bush's...

...January and March of this year, according to Treasury figures. Nor does it signal the end of the era of surpluses. Mitchell Daniels, the Bush administration's budget chief, predicted this month that the government's surplus for the fiscal...

...But in his first appearance before lawmakers since official surplus forecasts plummeted in August, budget director Mitchell Daniels heard Democrats assert that the budget crunch has left little for the spending increases that both sides want. Citing...

...year's Social Security surplus may have to be diverted to pay for other programs. White House budget director Mitchell Daniels delivered the news privately Friday to House Republican leaders. It would put the administration and Congress on...

...federal deficits, which he says he expects for at least the next three years. Wednesday's bleak prediction by Mitchell Daniels was the first public acknowledgment by the Bush administration that after a string of four consecutive annual surpluses...

...forced the price tag down from earlier levels exceeding $30 billion after veto threats from Bush's budget chief, Mitchell Daniels. His efforts left even Republican legislators annoyed. "We need to see the fine print, but so far we're pleased...

...that we set aside business as usual and keep tight control over all other spending," said White House budget chief Mitchell Daniels. Democrats tried to blame the fiscal turnabout on Republicans. They have long blamed the budget's decline...

...intelligence efforts. "It's another fine moment in terms of bipartisan cooperation," White House budget director Mitchell Daniels said after lawmakers and administration officials, in negotiations going past midnight, finished work on the final...

...some say the government might run a deficit for the first time since 1997. Separately, White House budget director Mitchell Daniels told lawmakers Wednesday that he now estimates this year's surplus at as low as $120 billion. That's a steep...