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Inability to agree on a desired level of military expenditures has already | delayed Senate Republican Leader Robert Dole's attempt to frame an alternative budget. With White House blessing, the Kansan had undertaken to get his 52 G.O.P. Senate colleagues to agree on spending cuts that would actually meet Reagan's unfulfilled goal of slashing the deficit to $100 billion by 1988. The Dole budget was supposed to be unveiled last Friday, but it was not; there is no certainty that it will be ready this week either, or in fact ever. The present thinking is that some time this...
...life. In part, the howl probably has been delayed rather than suppressed. Democrats, cowed by Reagan's 49-state electoral sweep, are lying low, many in the hope that Reagan's budget will self-destruct in a quarrel over military spending. Their strategy for the moment is to let Dole and his Republican Senate colleagues take the lead in trying to negotiate a compromise with the White House that would then have to be further compromised to get past the Democratic House...
Another highly coveted invitation was a Saturday luncheon given by the Annenbergs. The Reagans not only showed up but also provided the venue: Blair House, the official Government guest quarters. Elsewhere, the capital's reigning power couple, Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole and Wife Liddy, the Secretary of Transportation, presided over a $500-a-head cocktail bash for the new Dole Foundation, which benefits the handicapped. Colorado Brewer Joseph Coors threw a wingding on behalf of a conservative political-action committee; for $1,000 guests got to gamble away complimentary chips aboard the docked riverboat First Lady...
...that suits the Senate Republican leadership. "It's a good idea," said Dole of the tax plan. "It would be a great legacy for Reagan to leave the country. But it's a big, big undertaking." More urgent to the G.O.P. Senators is deficit reduction, an issue that Reagan has blithely walked away from. Apart from Agriculture Secretary John Block's successful appeal to win back part of the $1.2 billion in farm-subsidy cuts, the President's fiscal 1986 budget proposal has changed little since before Christmas. Boxed in by his campaign pledge to leave Social Security untouched...
Majority Leader Dole began grappling with specifics last week in an extraordinary meeting with Budget Committee Chairman Pete Domenici, the chairmen of the other 14 major Senate committees and the rest of the Senate G.O.P. leadership. After two hours they adjourned, having sketched out just the bare-bones outline of a plan. The centerpiece of their proposal, Dole announced, would probably be a one-year across-the-board budget freeze at fiscal-1985 levels on almost all Government spending, including defense funding and entitlement programs like Social Security. The only exemption would be means-tested programs for the poor, such...