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...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 one HEW official, "that was only because Rosalynn Carter chairs the President...
...budget into balance are vital steps in slowing the rise in prices. During the '60s and early '70s, the budget exploded with a mass of social programs that were perhaps innovative and needed at that time, but the mood and economy of the country have changed. Top OMB officials admit that during nearly a decade, billion-dollar programs were not "rigorously examined." It is time for Carter and Congress to take a more serious look at those decade-old ideas. The budget for next year is a good beginning, but more-much more-needs to be done...
Among the most controversial of the changes is OMB'S recommendation for a 26% cut in this year's $10.8 billion in spending for public jobs-the so-called CETA program. By one Administration estimate, such a reduction could add more than 312,000 people to the nation's unemployment rolls and would be widely condemned by labor and its congressional allies...
...already clear that OMB'S recommendations are an important departure from previous Administration policy. With its proposed ceiling of $532 billion in spending, the fiscal 1980 budget will rise only about 8%, or less than the inflation rate. Thus the budget for fiscal 1980 looks much more like a "lean and tight" spending program than did the bloated one Carter produced last January. Next year's budget is already a success for OMB Boss James Mclntyre, who came to the job last winter as a fill-in replacement for the fallen Bert Lance, and only recently seems to have taken...
Unfortunately, budget trimming by OMB seems small when weighed against the remorseless growth of federal expenditures that are mandated by law. Such "entitlement programs" as Social Security. Medicare and federal pensions account for nearly two-thirds of the budget, and in HEW they claim 89c of every dollar. Social Security alone costs $104 billion. Unless the growth of benefits is slowed, the whole Social Security system?as well as the budget?will be in deep trouble. Says Alice Rivlin, director of the Congressional Budget Office: "If you're really concerned about the growth in Government, then you have...