OMB Seeking Agency Feedback on Top-Line Budget Numbers
The Trump administration is alerting agencies of top-line discretionary spending numbers for FY 2018 funding starting Monday, Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney told reporters at a White House news conference. The administration is upping defense spending by…
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$54 billion, up to $603 billion, and cutting nondefense spending by that same amount, Mulvaney said. The cutting “reduces duplicative programs” and “programs that simply don’t work,” he said. “This is not a full-blown budget. That will not come until May.” The rise in defense spending "will be offset and paid for finding greater savings and efficiencies across the federal government,” President Donald Trump said Monday during a meeting with governors. The administration will strive to supply a looser budget outline to Congress by March 16, fitting with earlier rough anticipated timelines, and a full budget by the “first part of May,” Mulvaney said. The budget planning now doesn't address certain programs such as infrastructure, he said. The broader infrastructure discussions are ongoing and will likely happen outside the budget process, Spicer said. “I know there’s a lot of discussion” on public-private partnerships “in terms of the funding mechanism,” Spicer said. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaking at an event Monday, said "if it's tax breaks, we're not going to be for it," an infrastructure funding "nonstarter" that Schumer has communicated to Trump. "It should be paid for," Schumer said. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said Democrats would back inclusion of broadband, speaking at the same event. Capitol Hill Democrats warned against the level of cutting floated Monday. “A $54 billion cut will do far-reaching and long-lasting damage to our ability to meet the needs of the American people and win the jobs of the future,” Pelosi said. Schumer said the cuts would put a burden on the middle class. Spokespeople for entities including the Commerce Department, the FCC and the CPB (see 1702270058) didn’t comment Monday on what the top-line numbers may mean for their operations.