So-Called Budget Cuts include Non-Existent “Czars” and an Unused Reserve Fund,

[The Straight Story]

So-Called Budget Cuts include Non-Existent “Czars” and an Unused Reserve Fund

The $38 billion budget compromise that averted a government shutdown contained numerous political victories for Republicans, as well as some chicanery to help inflate the GOP achievement.

For instance, lawmakers can claim they cut $5 billion from the Department of Justice’s Crime Victims Fund. But the reduction is a paper one only. The money is in a reserve fund that wasn’t going to be allocated in 2010 anyway.

Republicans can also crow about axing funds for four Obama administration “czars” overseeing health care, climate change, the auto industry and urban affairs. But those positions were vacant before the compromise, so no one really is out of a job.

The cuts also included almost $2 billion left over from the 2010 census, which went under budget.

The biggest cuts will affect the departments of Education, Labor, and Health and Human Services. Together, these three will absorb 52% of the cuts, or $19.8 billion.

http://www.allgov.com/Where_is_the_Money_Going/ViewNews/So_Called_Budget_Cuts_include_Non_Existent_Czars_and_an_Unused_Reserve_Fund_110413

[Proud Liberal Dem]

1. WTF do Republicans have against crime victims??

:wtf: