And more money is on the way because the budget does not include funds for continuing military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Pentagon officials said it could cost more than $50 billion more if troops remain there in force. They expect to send a supplemental budget request to Congress early in 2005.
* Homeland Security: Programs across the government would see a $6 billion-increase to $47.4 billion. That includes increased spending on intelligence, technology, border protection and bioterrorism preparedness.
The budget would overhaul and cut spending for programs that deliver aid to state and local law enforcement agencies. The principal local aid programs would be reduced from $4.4 billion to $3.6 billion. However, the budget would restructure the program to provide a 60% increase in aid to highly populated areas such as Southern California.
The Justice Department would also get a big increase for anti-terror programs. But that would be partially offset by proposed cuts in other programs that are popular with members of Congress, including grants for community-oriented policing programs.
* Education: The department would receive a 3% increase -- to $57.3 billion -- under Bush's budget, the biggest boost for a Cabinet department not handling security issues. That includes $1 billion in increases for programs aiding disadvantaged and handicapped students.
* Space: In keeping with Bush's vow to reinvigorate America's space program, NASA's budget would increase nearly 6%, most of it aimed at his long-term plan to build a base on the moon and explore Mars.
The money would be gradually shifted from programs in Earth orbit such as the space shuttle, which is scheduled to be retired at the end of the decade.
* Environment: The Environmental Protection Agency is targeted for one of the largest cuts of any agency -- $606 million, or 7% of its budget -- most of it aimed at water quality programs.
The largest single cut -- $492 million -- would come from money for sewage treatment plants. Congress has rejected past Bush efforts to cut water-quality programs.
* Health and Human Services: Programs to promote marriage and sexual abstinence are among the biggest winners in the department's budget proposal. Funding for abstinence-only sex education would be doubled to $270 million; a new $50-million grant program for faith-based organizations would promote "responsible fatherhood and healthy marriage," and $120 million would be devoted to research and pilot projects designed to promote marriage and stable families among low-income Americans.
The Food and Drug Administration would spend an additional $60 million to protect the nation's food supply from natural and terrorism-related pathogens. An additional $8 million would be devoted to efforts to prevent mad cow disease.
The budget also calls for tax credits and tax-free savings accounts to expand the availability of healthcare and make health insurance more affordable. The administration's 10-year, $70-billion proposal for refundable health insurance tax credits is $19 billion lower than last year's proposal.
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Times staff writers Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Mary Curtius, Faye Fiore, Peter Gosselin, Vicki Kemper, Jon Marino, Maura Reynolds, Rick Schmitt and Esther Schrader contributed to this report.
