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Obama’s Deeper Freeze: 3-Year Discretionary Freeze Expands to 5 Years
Today’s big pre-SOTU story is that the President will propose a five-year freeze on non-security discretionary spending, which comes fairly close to Republican demands on the budget. Essentially, since...
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The Triumph of Austerity and the Abandoning of the Unemployed
One thing about this spending freeze – it may not actually conflict with a message of long-term investment. Long term is, after all, long term, and the five-year window is more medium-term. By shifting...
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Obama’s Baffling LIHEAP Cut
I think “baffling” is the appropriate term for the response to the apparent line item in the President’s budget cutting LIHEAP, energy assistance for the poor, by $3 billion (sources now say $2.5...
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