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The Spectacle Blog
Rob Nabors, the deputy director of the White House Office of Management and Budget , declined on a Tuesday conference call to reveal which programs would be affected by the Obama administration’s proposed freeze on non-discretionary defense spending.
Nabors told reporters that the administration has been going through the federal budget “line by line” to make sure that Obama’s domestic priorities were fully funded, while cutting other aspects of the budget that were not necessary during lean times. But he said the public would have to wait until next Monday, when the Obama administration announces its budget, for details on which programs will be affected.
“I’m not in a position to say right now,” he said.
Nabors also shot down the idea that the proposal was a political calculation aimed at making Obama appear as a centrist, with liberals decrying the move for going too far and conservatives arguing it doesn’t go far enough.
“This isn’t a plan of triangulation,” he insisted. “This is a plan of necessity.”
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Pete| 1.26.10 @ 12:49PM
What do you want to bet that something cut affects MA disproportionately?
Pete2| 1.26.10 @ 1:11PM
According to various reports, thes 'cuts" and "spending freeze" amounts to peanuts. It's a shell game. Obama hasn't changed, he thinks we are all stupid. Evidently he hasn't been paying attention.
S.L. Toddard| 1.26.10 @ 2:05PM
Of course its a shell game - it is literally impossible to make progress vis a vis the deficit without cutting Big Government's military budget but that will never happen due to both parties having embraced Big Government liberalism and militarism.
Pete| 1.26.10 @ 1:30PM
But as long as they are playing the shell game, I believe they will use the cuts for revenge to the extent that they can. These are petty, small-minded people, completely divorced from reality and from those they purport to rule.
Franklin| 1.26.10 @ 2:46PM
"going through the federal budget "line by line" to make sure that Obama's domestic priorities were fully funded"
Why, of course.
"make sure that Obama's domestic priorities were fully funded"
That means by-offs, pay-backs, deals, take-overs, entitlement and any other bribe that is intended to limit our freedoms and grow the government is safe from the cutting board.
Uber left, your plan is safe.
ARL| 1.26.10 @ 10:59PM
If GWB hadn't cut taxes to the rich, gone to war, spent like there was no tomorrow, we wouldn't be in this mess.
Obama is saving our bacon. He's cleaning up after the most abysmal failure. Give him a chance. It's going to take more than a single year to get us out of 8 years' of greasy Bush build-up.
At least he doesn't go around touching foreign heads of state inappropriately. Angela Merkel no longer has to worry about a US President who can't keep his hands to himself.
I was so embarrassed by GWB every time he opened his mouth. His ignorance was blatant and appalling.
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