New projections show Wisconsin's transportation budget is spiraling toward a $63.5 million deficit by mid-2015, leaving lawmakers groping for how to pay for building and repairing roads across the state over the next two years.

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Who'll be the first to feel the sting?

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Republicans and Democrats are selling their budget plans back home as models for how they would run Washington if they win the November elections.

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Republicans pushed an election-year, $3.5 trillion budget through the House on Thursday that relies on biting spending cuts and a revamping of Medicare to curb massive federal deficits, drawing a sharp contrast with how President Barack Obama and Democrats would tackle the nation's fiscal problems.

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By Matt Pommer The clear winners in this Wisconsin election year are television stations. Candidate and ghost organizations have poured money into TV spots in the races for the governor’s seat and the U.S. Senate. Wisconsin’s Senate race is leading ...

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By JIM ABRAMS Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate on Sunday passed a $1.1 trillion spending bill with increased budgets for vast areas of the federal government, including health, education, law enforcement and veterans’ programs. The more-than-1,000-page package, ...

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By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal deficit for the first two months of the new budget year is piling up faster than last year’s record imbalance. Economists worry the flood of red ink could push ...

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By Philip Elliott AP Writer Washington — President Barack Obama outlined major new government stimulus and jobs proposals on Tuesday, saying the nation must continue to “spend our way out of this recession.” Without giving a price tag, Obama proposed ...

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By ANDREW TAYLOR and TOM RAUM Associated Press Writers WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration, mindful of public anxiety over the government’s mushrooming debt, is shifting emphasis from big-spending policies to deficit reduction. Domestic agencies have been told to brace ...

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By ANDREW TAYLOR Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration has alerted domestic agencies to plan for a freeze or even a 5 percent cut in their budgets, part of an election-year push to rein in record deficits ...

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