WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 (Xinhua) -- The budget that President George Bush will submit to Congress late on Monday would show the federal deficit falling in each of the next four years and would produce a 61-billion-dollar surplus in 2012, The Washington Post reported on Monday.

    The budget, the first in which Bush will present his request to a Democratic Congress, would reduce spending for Medicare and Medicaid, the federal government's health programs for the elderly and the poor, by about 100 billion dollars over five years, according to the report.

    And it would provide insufficient extra cash to maintain coverage for poor children currently enrolled in the Children's Health Insurance Program, said the report.

    Bush said he would ask for an additional 100 billion dollars for Iraq and the global war on terrorism this year, on top of 70 billion dollars already sought.

    Democrats blasted these proposals, noting that the Republican-controlled Congress last year did not approve much smaller reductions in federal health-care spending.

    "Rather than trying to solve our health care crisis by lowering costs and covering more people, the President's plan will make the crisis worse by raising costs and failing to cover those who need it most -- our nation's children," said Sen. Edward M. Kennedy in a statement.