Continuing Resolution reductions
Talking Points Memo points us to a nine page chart specifying which programs are sustaining funding cuts in the Continuing Resolution reductions as published by the Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee. (h/t rjs)
(h/t MG) The original documents from the House Committee on Appropriations are located here. These include the legislation text, legislation summary, and the program cuts. The legislation summary provides a breakdown of spending authority.
Chuck Spinney years ago called the pentagon: Versailles on the Potomoc.
No one seems to cut the court of fools.
“Let them eat cake”.
One agency at a time, the Climate Change/Anthropogenic Global Warming infrastructure is being eliminated. EPA just barely escaped restrictions on their ability to regulate CO2 emissions. NOAA did, however, have its entire Climate Change, function axed. There was some action on the NASA budget, but its impact on the Climate Change group is unclear at this time.
NOAA and NASA are the two internal US Govt Agencies responsible for many of the extreme predictions and/or funding sources for others presenting extreme predictions. Predictions are not science until they are confirmed, and that is their weakness. Observations of changes in ice, temperature, sea level rise, and locations for plants and animals are not predictions. Changes in these things are normal. Stasis is not, and that stasis is what we are lead to believe is the goal in Climate Change.
The original documents from the House Committee on Appropriations are located here. These include the legislation text, legislation summary, and the program cuts.
The legislation summary provides a breakdown of spending authority.
$352 million in cuts for FY2011
Remember the job loss projections from Moody’s Mark Zandi on February 28 when the House Republicans wanted to cut $61 billion from the Federal Budget? Zandi claimed, “This would mean some 400,000 fewer jobs created by the end of 2011 and 700,000 fewer jobs by the end of 2012.” He wrote a seven page paper outlining his gloom and doom over the legislation, H.R. 1. John Taylor responded to Zandi’s claims and Goldman Sachs’ Alec Phillips’ predictions.
Here is Mark Zandi in early April\, commenting on the latest continuing resolution which calls for cuts of $38.5 billion. “I think the cuts are perfectly digestible in the context of the current expansion,” said Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody’s Analytics. “And if out of this process it appears that we’ve made a good step toward fiscal discipline and laid out a mechanism for the main event, then it could be a plus.” John Taylor followed up as well, though one of his numbers appears to be incorrect.
So, we’re cutting $38.5 billion from the FY2011 budget. Right? Wrong. Only $352 million will be cut from FY2011 Federal spending. That’s all. The rest of the cuts occur in the outyears.
Imagine that the Congress dragged its sorry feet in an effort to cut only $352 billion from the current fiscal year’s Federal budget. The Democrats and Republicans almost shut down the Government over less than half a billion dollars. Pathetic.
And the jobs? Very few people have now gone on record to discuss projected job losses. Clearly, the reduction of only $352 million in Federal spending won’t have much of an impact compared to $38.5 billion or $61 billion within a single fiscal year or the remaining six months of this fiscal year. We’re only talking about 0.9% of the $38.5 billion cuts occurring in FY2011, so the impact is very small in comparison to the overall reductions outlined in the continuing […]