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...There are a lot of budget managers who seem to be doing a great job of putting people in programs first, and really cutting in non-personnel areas as much as possible,” Jaeger said. “But it’s still really important to put those priorities out there, and to be sure everybody’s thinking as hard as they can and feeling as much pressure as they ought...to take care of Harvard’s good people...
These lessons will be particularly important as Obama this week tries to persuade skeptics in Congress to pass his $3.6 trillion budget and, as Geithner warned, the Administration is forced to go back to ask Congress for upwards of $750 billion to fund the bank-bailout plan. "We recognize it's going to be extraordinarily difficult, particularly in the wake of not just the events of the last two weeks, but the last nine months, frankly," Geithner conceded in the hearing...
...then he was off. He would be persistent, he said, about passing a budget that addressed his concerns about energy, health care and education. He would be persistent about finding a way to solve the credit crisis, persistent about finding a way to take on lobbyists and pork spending, and persistent about finding new ways of working with Iran. "We are going to stay with it as long as I'm in office," he promised the American people, reminding them yet again that he has only been in office just over 60 days and is wrestling with problems he "inherited...
...often the case with Obama, his macro message was buffeted by hard-nosed political tactics just beneath the surface. He made the rather remarkable claim, for instance, that his budget proposal was "inseparable from this recovery," apparently tying his own long-range policy goals on education, energy and health care to the end of the current recession. He also took some jabs at his Republican critics, who have mostly been marginalized in recent weeks by a lack of substantive arguments. "The critics tend to criticize, but they don't offer an alternative budget," he said, sounding exasperated...
...rest of the event mostly covered matters that had already been handled. He defended his budget in the face of the extraordinary deficits it would produce under economic projections by the Congressional Budget Office, projections the White House believes are overly pessimistic. He described his decision to fund expanded stem-cell research as a difficult ethical one. He said that aside from some of the understandable elation around his Inauguration, he did not believe that his race had figured much in his first 64 days in office...