Discretionary spending will be reduced by only $14.7 billion

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Budget Deal Actually Cut Less Than $15 Billion

The full extent of the budget deal reached late Friday did not become clear until today "after congressional aides worked all weekend and all day Monday to shape a detailed spending plan based on the framework that Obama and congressional leaders agreed to Friday," the Washington Post reports.

"In several cases, what look like large reductions are actually accounting gimmicks."

National Journal: "The specifics show that finding nearly $40 billion in cuts during the 2011 fiscal year required clever accounting and, for the White House, a willingness to concede on rhetoric to find gains on substance. For example, the final cuts in the deal are advertised as $38.5 billion less than was appropriated in 2010, but after removing rescissions, cuts to reserve funds and reductions in mandatory spending programs, discretionary spending will be reduced only by $14.7 billion."

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2011/04/12/budget_deal_actually_cut_less_than_15_billion.html

only 14.7 billion in actual cuts?
my, my, my

Obama deserves some apologies.

[FrenchieCat]

1. Folks still haven't voted for this budget.......

and perhaps now they won't and blame Obama....
that shifty eye trickster who if he was White would have been called "brilliant"
like Pres. Clinton was....but instead will be said to have "caved"!

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2. It will pass. And it will split the Repuke House in half.

But Boehner will bring enough of them to get it through with Dem support.

The Tan Man is going down in flames on this one.

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3. I thought more people would be interested in the details of Obama's recent win

I guess that's what happens when people get too invested in seeing him cave or fail.
They tend to ignore evidence to the contrary.