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...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...
...simply got out of hand in many instances. Says a White House aide: "We just have to look at some of these things and ask ourselves: 'What are we buying? What's the real effect?' " The ax is poised over three departments in particular: Health, Education and Welfare, HUD and Labor. They will spend $214.3 billion in fiscal 1979, or about 44% of the current $491.6 billion federal budget. Their spending, moreover, has increased in the past few years. Outlays for what is defined as "education, training, employment and social services" have jumped from $21 billion in fiscal...
...just why cutting a federal budget is so difficult. Essentially, Harris says she wants about $1.5 billion more than OMB is willing to give her in order to continue subsidized housing construction at close to the present level. OMB objects to her complaint, arguing that what is really pinching HUD's housing money is its plan for a new $1.3 billion demonstration project involving mixed-income rental housing. OMB insists that if that costly project was shelved, HUD would indeed be able to build almost as many new housing units as it says it wants. Whoever is correct...
Says she: "My concern has been for people who are unable to provide for their own needs and who have been disadvantaged by this society." She does not see "any problems with the ability of the Secretary of HUD to administer the programs." As for her boss, she says: "I do not know what the President's final decision will be with the HUD programs. I do fight. I always do, of course...
...Detroit city council in the early 1970s by taking on the federal bureaucracy?and winning. He did so by deciding to tear down thousands of abandoned houses that had been taken over by the Department of Housing and Urban Development and had become breeding grounds for crime. When HUD's lethargic officials threatened to prosecute Levin and Mayor Coleman Young, the two city officials ordered the housing razed anyway?and HUD did nothing. Challenging Republican Senator Robert Griffin this year, Democrat Levin again campaigned against overgrown government. Yet he never recanted his basically liberal philosophy, bridging the gap by claiming...