Cities Cheer U.S. Senate

The Bush transformation of the budgets for America's cities was brought to a screeching halt last evening when the U.S. Senate approved a budget at odds with the President's.

Blocking cuts in Medicaid is drawing all the headlines, but the Senate budget resolution preserved the Community Development Block Grant program, which the Bush administration seeks to end by consolidating all such grants within the Commerce Department.

Local mayors joined their colleagues from around the country earlier this week to lobby the Senate and Mayor Garner reported that both Indiana senators continue to believe in the CDBG program.