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Budget Director David Stockman said it first when he unveiled the Administration's proposals for radical cuts in domestic spending. Treasury Secretary James Baker picked up the refrain in Senate testimony. But no one has voiced the argument against federal revenue sharing more often or more forcefully than Ronald Reagan. He said it again last week when he met with the National Governors' Association at the White House: "There's simply no justification for the Federal Government, which is running a deficit, to be borrowing money to be spent by state and local governments, some of which are now running...
...Administration did pull its act together in one respect last week. Reagan admitted that Budget Director David Stockman had been "blowing his cool" in painfully candid testimony to Congress about military pensions and loans to farmers and college students. Earlier, White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan had called in Stockman to tell him that his gibes were upsetting the President and advised him to pipe down. The Budget Director obediently offered only relatively bland testimony last week, but that did not quiet his critics. When he was briefly hospitalized after feeling faint at a dinner party, a cruel...
...Stockman's testimony, which also included an equally bristling condemnation of federal subsidies for farmers (see COVER STORIES), drew immediate return fire. Said Arizona Republican Barry Goldwater, the new chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee: "I found Mr. Stockman's remarks about as distasteful as anything I've heard coming out of this Administration or any other." The following day the Veterans of Foreign Wars sent an angry telegram to President Reagan announcing: THE V.F.W. WILL NOT BE SATISFIED UNTIL THE 4-F DRAFT-DODGING STOCKMAN HAS BEEN FIRED AND YOU HAVE REPUDIATED HIS VIEWS. (As a Harvard divinity...
...White House, under the so far cautious guidance of new Chief of Staff Donald Regan, nervously edged away from Stockman's declaration, though some in the West Wing secretly sympathized with it. The Budget Director, said Press Secretary Larry Speakes, "was expressing a personal opinion probably not shared by the President." Later, when asked in an interview with the Wall Street Journal whether he agreed with Stockman's view of military pensions, the President did not hedge. "No," he said, "I have to think this is a little different than any other pension program." Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger was much...
...what Stockman had achieved with his astonishing bluntness was to draw dramatic attention to the notion that even the most hallowed of government expenditures deserved stern examination--if Congress had the nerve. Nor were his remarks inconsistent with the philosophy behind the President's budget, with its $51 billion in reductions of outlays for almost every domestic program except Social Security. Many groups who have never felt the full extent of the budget knife complained loudly about the proposed cuts. Congress has already more than hinted to the President that he will not get many of the reductions...