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...ever said that cutting the budget would be easy, but for one top staffer at the Office of Management and Budget it has become a real nightmare. When W. Bowman Cutter, the aptly named Associate Director of OMB, drifts off to sleep these nights, his dreams run regularly to visions of hands that keep grabbing at him from all directions. The symbolism is plain: the hands belong to various interest groups that are desperately appealing to him to be exempted from budget cutbacks. Less than a month remains before Jimmy Carter presents to Congress his spending program for fiscal...
Each of the budget's 3,000 spending programs?from the beekeepers' indemnity fund to the space shuttle?has its defenders in Congress, and even the most seemingly inconsequential of cutbacks will inspire protests. OMB is recommending, for example, that the U.S. Travel Service, set up under John Kennedy to lure foreign tourists, be scrapped completely. The saving would be only $14 million, and the travel industry is already lobbying against the cut. The budget bashers have also cut 1,100 men from a Justice Department request for 14,000 border-patrol officers to intercept illegal immigrants from Mexico. Organized...
...biggest battles will rage over defense and social welfare spending. Together, the Pentagon and Health, Education and Welfare take about 60% of the budget. OMB is recommending defense spending of $122 billion, an increase of just under 9% from current levels and therefore not enough to offset inflation, which has been running at 91/2%. A defense budget of that size would not honor Carter's NATO pledge of last spring to increase U.S. defense expenditures by 3% above inflation. Last week, however. Carter repeated that promise, suggesting that he could end up overruling the recommendation of his own budget advisers...
...OMB recommends holding HEW'S spending to some $195 billion next year. That would be an 8% rise and has brought a strong protest from HEW Secretary Joseph Califano about cuts in or alterations to 115 separate items in his thick spending request...
...voiced policy peeves vehemently before, involving such matters as housing-loan practices of the Federal National Mortgage Association and the White House position on the Bakke case. The Administration is known to have been none too happy about her outspokenness. Yet she is unrepentant about her bout with OMB...