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...year in persuading NATO nations to increase defense spending by 3% a year in real terms. Carter will have a hard time going back on that pledge. To honor it, he will have to raise the Pentagon budget from $114.5 billion to about $126 billion in the 1980 budget. OMB Director James Mclntyre and other advisers are arguing for a smaller increase. But if Carter goes along with their pleadings, he will further erode the confidence of U.S. allies who are worried about American resolution. He will also make it harder to pass a SALT II treaty since members...
Under presidential orders to cut wherever they can, federal agencies have submitted budget proposals to OMB, which is reducing them further and returning the trimmed versions this week. Then the various agencies will start making their appeals to restore funds that have been lopped off. Carter insists he will back up his budget cutters. At a mid-November meeting of subcabinet officers and other top civil servants, he emphasized that his anti-inflation campaign would require sacrifices "from everyone." Noting that all sorts of interest groups "will make their voices heard," he warned: "You will be tempted...
...page OMB report offered some impressive figures. It said that Americans now spend 785 million hours a year filling out federal forms. The paper work annually costs the nation $100 billion-about $500 for every citizen. But, it went on, reductions in Government red tape since January 1977 have done away with enough forms to trim the nation's paper shuffling by 9.9%-a cut of more than 85 million hours, equivalent to, say, a year's work by 50,000 people...
Just how did the OMB arrive at these figures? Director James Mclntyre admitted to the subcommittee that the report was based on a combination of guesswork and the honor system. Said he: "We all have to rely on information from Government agencies." Retorted Chiles: "The IRS has to rely on the information it gets from people too, but the process is greatly helped along because we know it does audits...
...medical costs under control and, in the long run, to fight inflation. But his program would cost HEW a staggering $30 billion a year in addition to the current $43 billion. Although he was backed by White House domestic advisers, Califano was opposed by Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal, OMB Director James Mclntyre and Charles Schultze, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. They argued for a smaller program, one that would not cost more than $15 billion to $27 billion. Whatever the President decides, Congress is distinctly cool to the idea of adding to the already inflationary budget deficit...