Word: cuttingly
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...largely to Mclntyre. The budget boss mainly succeeded in keeping new spending proposals by agency and department heads out of the package. With the President stressing the need for austerity, and Mclntyre and his staffers at the-Office of Management and Budget having what amounted to carte blanche to cut, Cabinet officers quickly realized that appeals to the White House over OMB reductions were pointless. At the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, for instance, one of the few new programs to survive OMB scrutiny was a $38 million plan for improving mental health services by the states, and, said...
...other hand, existing programs were not cut much at all. Total spending for HEW rises a bit more than 10%, to $199.4 billion next year, and the department's share of the budget grows fractionally to 37.5%. Similarly, at Housing and Urban Development, spending is up slightly more than 18%, to $ 10.6 billion. Boasted one HUD staffer: "We didn't lose one program that we didn't want to lose...
...weigh down the federal budget. Successive Administrations have tried to zap the most outmoded and ineffective of these programs, only to have Congress restore them to please special-interest groups. But this year, the Office of Management and Budget thinks, the mood in the nation is strong enough to cut or eliminate the least useful of these projects...
...Capitol Hill. Government subsidies have steadily swelled, reaching $779 million in the last fiscal year, or about $2 in federal funds for every $1 taken in at Amtrak ticket windows. Insisting that Amtrak will have to improve its management and save money, OMB proposed that the subsidy be cut to $634 million...
Medical School Capitation Grants. These have been made to medical schools on a per capita basis since 1972 so that they could provide financial aid for needy students to meet a nationwide doctor shortage. Now the shortage is past. But Administration efforts to cut funding for the program have been thwarted by Congress, which authorized payments of $144 million in the 1979 budget. For the 1980 budget, OMB proposes that the program be killed...