Orszag wants agencies to cut spending by five percent but…
President Obama’s top budget adviser wants federal agencies to identify “laggard programs” that they can trim as a step toward reducing spending by 5 percent. The idea is to “make it easier” to comply with the president’s plan to freeze some federal outlays for three years beginning with the 2011 federal budget.
via Obama Budget Chief Wants Agencies to Cut Spending 5 Percent.
Here’s what I never get. Fiscal conservatives and others always talk about cutting out “wasteful” government spending, smaller government and etc but never want to talk about the Department of Defense’s budget.
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