For Republicans, the compromise reduces funding to two of their least-favorite agencies -- the Internal Revenue Service and the Environmental Protection Agency. Overall, federal spending would be lower than the final budget of President George W. Bush's administration.
. The White Man's Burden  is a poem by the English poet Rudyard Kipling. It was originally published in the popular magazine McClure's in 1899, with the subtitle The United States and the Philippine Islands.
According to Theodore Allen, the knowledge, ideologies, norms, and practices of whiteness and the accompanying white race were invented in the U.S. as part of a system of racial oppression designed to solve a particular problem in colonial Virginia.