Budget Deal Reflects Sharp GOP Obama Compromise
The six month spending plan slices about 40 billion from domestic agency budgets the largest rollback in history. It aimed to keep cabinet budgets near pre Obama levels while forcing concessions on environmental rules Planned Parenthood funding and other programs. Boehner framed the deal as serious cutting to satisfy core Republicans with Tea Party backing while Obama Democratic allies secured environment protections and kept education clean energy and medical research funded.
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Budget pact trims mostly automatic program spending
The budget agreement targets about 18 billion in cuts to mandatory programs rather than agency operating budgets. It includes 2.5 billion in leftover highway funds, 500 million from Pell Grant reforms, 3.5 billion of unused CHIP funds, 5 billion in phantom savings from a DOJ crime victims trust fund, 400 million from capping a Treasury fund, and 2.2 billion in cuts to health care cooperative subsidies.
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