Bush budget spells cuts, changes across anti-poverty programs.

Under President Bush's proposed federal budget for 2006, many programs assisting the low-income are either slashed dramatically or eliminated altogether.

Spending for domestic programs, aside from entitlements such as Medicare and Social Security, would decline slightly in 2006, to $389 billion and would remain flat for the next four years--a freeze with no obvious precedent in the last two decades.

Bush proposed stricter eligibility rules for food stamps that are expected to save $57 million in 2006 and $1.1 billion over the next decade. Under the proposal,