President's budget not expected to tackle entitlement costs

The Wall Street Journal: Budget Ducks Big Benefit Cuts
President Barack Obama's budget proposal Monday will offer several measures to trim the federal deficit in the next 10 years. But it would leave largely unchanged the biggest drivers of future government spending: the Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security programs that are expanding rapidly as the baby boom turns into a senior boom. Calling for major changes in the popular programs would be politically treacherous in an election year because of fierce opposition from seniors, who vote in large numbers (Paletta, 2/10).

National Journal: Federal Budget Proposal Will Spare Entitlements--Report
President Obama's budget proposal Monday will leave the Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security programs largely unchanged, though will offer a slew of other measures to trim the federal budget deficit, the Wall Street Journal reports. The three programs represent an increasingly growing share of the federal budget (2/9).