Word: omb
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...recommendation from the Office of Management and Budget. After hearing the arguments, the man who sits where the buck stops jots his "RR" in a small box next to one of the alternatives, or scribbles in a compromise. The disputes between Cabinet agencies and David Stockman's OMB have reached the Oval Office, where Ronald Reagan must play either Santa or Scrooge. Even as the final legislation implementing his 1982 budget was being rushed through an adjournment-happy Congress last week, the President was working on the cuts he hopes to make in spending for fiscal 1983 (which starts...
...Office of Management and Budget computer. Its master, Stockman, has admitted changing its programming early this year to avoid a forecast of embarrassingly huge deficits. Indeed OMB last summer hired four college students to supplement its work with calculations done by hand, because, says Spokesman Edwin Dale, "computers are awfully rigid." Nonetheless last week the computer in effect accused the House Appropriations computer of printing out phony figures that underestimated how much would be spent on food stamps and supplemental security income for the disabled. The resolution that came out of the Senate-House conference, said the OMB computer, would...
...Stockman's assistance in calculating the effect of various budget proposals impressed Washington influence weighers. The Senate majority leader had earlier expressed concern that Stockman's doubts about Reagan's economic program, as reported in the celebrated Atlantic Monthly article, might destroy the OMB director's credibility with Congress...
Moreover, the President clearly indicated that he values Stockman's counsel by following his advice. When the Atlantic article first appeared, the President summoned Stockman for a chewing out that the OMB boss described as "a visit to the woodshed." But in an interview with ABC's Barbara Walters last week, Reagan stoutly defended Stockman's loyalty to the Administration. The President said he accepted Stockman's assertion that his remarks to the Atlantic were "off the record," and added that "David Stockman was not the sinner. He was sinned against...
Altogether, Stockman found it profitable, as well as necessary, to scrub a four-day, 15-stop speaking tour of the Midwest and West, which he had scheduled to shore up his standing with Reagan loyalists. The OMB director did address a fund raiser in Denver, by telephone hookup from Washington, and said he "considered it a privilege to work 15 hours a day on some days as a soldier in the revolution coming to America." But he canceled all his personal appearances, to the annoyance of some Republican Congressmen...