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...first concentrated uproar over budget-based sacrifices was not long in arriving. In testimony before a Senate committee, Budget Director David Stockman decried the rapid growth in agricultural subsidies, which would be severely reduced under Reagan's spending proposal, and military retirement costs, which would not. Spokesmen for the two constituencies expressed outrage at being singled out as budget busters, and Stockman's dismissal was demanded...
...Stockman would like to slash the bankruptcy-bound Medicare system (estimated 1985 cost: $71 billion) by $3 billion next year and $20 billion over three years, principally by freezing hospital and doctors' fees. The medical lobby is determined to stop him. Stockman proposes cutting agricultural subsidies by close to $9 billion over three years, but farmers are up in arms. He has suggested reducing student aid by $5.5 billion during the same period, angering millions of middle-class families with college-age children...
...some cuts must logically be made." Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger has reduced the Pentagon's proposed budget by $8.7 billion, but most of his cuts, which include no weapons systems, are illusory. For instance, $1 billion in cuts to civilian officials at the Pentagon had already been counted in Stockman's freeze on federal salaries. Weinberger, a cagey operator, warns that deeper trims could wreck arms control by convincing the Soviets that they need not bother to bargain, since Congress will reduce U.S. military strength for them...
...test, and House Democratic leaders are equally loath to cut Social Security, the Senate Republican leaders have been left to salvage the situation. They decided to offer their own deficit-cutting plan two weeks ago after a meeting with Administration officials, including Baker, Richard Darman and Budget Director David Stockman...
...passed in August 1981, a jubilant Reagan told colleagues, "I had some outstanding help from a number of people, but particularly from a very fine salesman named Don Regan." Regan's loyalty and persistence have helped him overtake more Washington-wise players in the Administration, notably Budget Director David Stockman...