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President Barack Obama called his full Cabinet together for the first time on Monday and instructed department heads to cut enough money from their budgets to set a new “tone.”

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But the target the president set for the cuts amounts to a small fraction of the overall budget, leaving room for critics to question whether the reductions mean much at all. Obama has asked for a total of $100 million in trims, from a $3.5 trillion budget.

Republicans characterized the target in different terms. A “meager .0025 percent,” said House GOP Leader John Boehner of Ohio.