{"id":6290,"date":"2009-04-20T14:20:52","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T14:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2009\/04\/obamas-trying-to-save-millions.html"},"modified":"2009-04-20T14:20:52","modified_gmt":"2009-04-20T14:20:52","slug":"obamas-trying-to-save-millions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2009\/04\/obamas-trying-to-save-millions.html","title":{"rendered":"Obama’s trying to save millions in his $3.5 trillion budget"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know you lefties are going to say that as far as Obama is concerned, conservatives never give him credit. Here he is trying to reduce the budget by tasking his cabinet to cut costs<\/a>. But come on, he is spending trillions of money we don’t have and all he’s wiling to cut is a drop in the bucket compared to what he’ll be spending (Ed Morrissey notes that it’s only 0.0029% of the budget). If this is response to the Tea Parties (as Morrissey believes), then it’s a piddling response. <\/p>\n

President Obama plans to convene his Cabinet for the first time today, where he will order members to identify a combined $100 million in budget cuts over the next 90 days, according to a senior administration official.
\nThe budget cuts, while they would account to a minuscule portion of federal spending, are intended to signal the president’s determination to cut spending and reform government, the official said.
\nObama’s order comes as he is under increasing pressure to show momentum toward his goal of eventually reducing the federal deficit, even as he goes about increasing spending in the short run to prop up the economy and support his priorities.
\nEarlier this month, both chambers of Congress passed Obama’s $3.5 trillion budget outline for 2010, which includes unprecedented new investments in health care, education and energy. But the huge budget, which contemplates a $1.2 trillion deficit, has drawn the ire of small-government conservatives who say that the deficits jeopardize the nation’s economic future.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

BTW, it’s amazing to me that this is the first time he’s convened his cabinet since he was elected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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