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...Budget. More than $50 billion in deficit spending is projected for the fiscal 1979 budget that is now before Congress, and both Carter and his Budget Director, James Mclntyre, are under attack for being unable to reduce the volume of the red ink any more than that. Last week Carter pledged to do better in his 1980 budget, saying that new spending will be severely restricted. Meanwhile, the President's chief inflation fighter, Robert Strauss, predicted that the deficit in the 1980 budget will be "well below" $40 billion...
...harshest assessments of Mclntyre come from conservatives who see the OMB'S inability to reduce the federal budget deficits as a root cause of inflation...
...Mclntyre who, back in Georgia, first tested for Carter the idea of "zero-based budgeting"-that is, not simply comparing a department's spending requests with what it spent the previous year, but starting at zero and figuring out how much it really needs. Currently, as time grows short to ready the 1979 budget for presentation to Congress on Jan. 23, Mclntyre has been zealously applying the concept to the Federal Government. The Department of Defense asked for $130.5 billion in new spending authority for fiscal 1979, but will probably get $126 billion-and that...
...appointment was no surprise. Mclntyre has been doing the job as acting Director of OMB since Lance left in September. Indeed, he has been Carter's numbers man since long before that. He was Georgia's budget director when Carter was Governor, and even when Lance was head of OMB, Mclntyre as Assistant Director did most of the real work of budget preparation. (Lance told anyone who would listen that he did not like to get mixed up with figures, and some OMB staffers referred to him as an "absentee landlord...
...zero-based budget slashing, the final document will make it more difficult than ever for the President to fulfill his promise of balancing the budget by 1981-a pledge that the President has wisely been downplaying lately. Carter and Mclntyre are likely to hold proposed government spending to just slightly below the $500 billion mark that Administration officials consider psychologically discouraging. But the projected budget deficit will probably be no smaller than the $59 billion predicted this fiscal year, and half again as large as the $40 billion that Carter had set as a goal. The difference is accounted...