MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Order today at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
This is the best I could find. Others may want to add links in the comments if they find better/more details elsewhere.
Of the 38 bn cut, It looks like its half cuts in entitlements ( $4.9 billion from a Justice Department fund for crime victims; $400 million from a fund to seize assets from organized crime; and roughly $550 million from the SMART Grant student-aid program), and half in discretionary (no details in this article!?!) with the defence budget largely spared.
It also looks as though all the riders proposed by the GOP failed (good news!) save one: annual audits of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau - an idea that is probably much less innocuous than it sounds - the bureau will be much less independent from political interference.
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The spending deal agreed to Friday night to avert a government shutdown includes a provision banning the District from spending its own funds to provide abortions to low-income women as well as funding to continue a controversial school voucher program in DC.
by Obey on Sat, 04/09/2011 - 9:23am
Selective disclosure of cuts in the deal (from the WH blog):
The two sides agreed to cut $13 billion from funding for programs at the Departments of Labor, Education, and Health and Human Services as well as over $1 billion in a cut across non-defense agencies, forcing everyone to tighten their belt. There will be reductions to housing assistance programs and some health care programs along with $8 billion in cuts to our budget for State and Foreign Operations. These significant cuts to the State Department and foreign assistance will mean we will not meet some of the ambitious goals set for the nation in the President's Budget.
Our team also went after wasteful spending and earmarked, special interest programs including $630 million in earmarked transportation projects and at least $2.5 billion in transportation funding that is ready to be earmarked. We were able to cut $35 million by ending the Crop Insurance Good Performance Rebate, which gives successful farmers, who have no claims, a rebate for insurance premiums already subsidized by the federal government. In addition to these cuts, we were able to eliminate $30 million for a job training program that was narrowly targeted at certain student loan processors. We also looked to the Defense department for savings, and were able to identify $18 billion in cuts deemed unnecessary by the Pentagon. These types of cuts are what the American people expect out of their leaders in Washington.
by Obey on Sun, 04/10/2011 - 1:33pm
The 'tough choices' of hitting the poor and middle class are a done deal, the no brainer choices of ending the tax cuts on millionaires and billionaires, dead and alive, taxing CEO bonuses, or jailing Wall Street crooks are challenges no one in DC dares even consider or mention.
by NCD on Sun, 04/10/2011 - 2:09pm
Win! the! Future!!!
by we are stardust on Sun, 04/10/2011 - 2:36pm
Yup. and yet a little more context: take a look at tax expenditures - lost revenue through loopholes that could be closed.
by Obey on Sun, 04/10/2011 - 3:10pm