Reuters, via The Washington Post:

The Energy Department said it has come up with $5 million to immediately restore jobs cut at a renewable energy laboratory President George W. Bush will visit on Tuesday, avoiding a potentially embarrassing moment as the president promotes his energy plan.

Bush proposed spending millions more dollars in renewable energy research [in his State of the Union speech last month]. However, Democratic lawmakers and environmentalists questioned the administration’s commitment when jobs were being eliminated at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, Colorado.

I fail to see how he avoided a potentially embarrassing situation.