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WASHINGTON — A Democrat-dominated Senate panel Thursday approved an election-year budget plan that cuts just a few billion dollars from President Barack Obama’s budget for next year and puts off hard decisions on rapidly growing benefit programs.
With Democrats facing potentially ruinous losses in the midterm elections, the nonbinding Senate Budget Committee measure punts politically dangerous decisions on federal retirement programs such as Social Security and Medicare to a bipartisan deficit commission that’s holding its first meeting next week.
