PRESIDENT APPEALS FOR SPENDING CUTS TO REDUCE DEFICIT
President Reagan tonight accused the Democratic leaders in Congress of advocating ''more and more spending and more and more taxes'' and asked the American people to support a budgetary approach that would rely on spending cuts to close the Federal deficit in the years ahead. In a television address delivered a day after the collapse of talks aimed at a bipartisan budget compromise, Mr. Reagan sounded a combative note by saying that he would meet soon with Republican allies in Congress to help draw up a budget for the next year. ''I will also consult with responsible members of the Democratic Party in Reagan's address is on page A17; Bolling's reply, page A18. the Congress,'' he said, ''to make this a truly bipartisan effort in the national interest.'' Failure After 5 Weeks The bipartisan budget talks dragged on for five weeks and broke off Wednesday after an extraordinary three-hour meeting between the President and the Speaker of the House, Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. The impasse arose from Mr. Reagan's refusal to scale back his three-year income tax cut and the Democrats' refusal to accept deep new cuts in domestic programs.
