Interactive budget-cutting tool from NYT lets you play Panetta and Congress ” by choosing some of the most common, interesting or provocative cuts that have been proposed by various parties.”
Tag Archives: budget
Homeland Security 2012 Appropriations
By SB Anderson
Another one for the reference folder: Congressional Research Service’s “Homeland Security Department: FY2012 Appropriations.” (PDF)
Department of Homeland Security’s 2011 Annual Financial Report, including auditor’s report and response. (It’s a beefy PDF — 278 pages).
U.S. intelligence budget intelligence
Steven Aftergood of Secrecy News has put together a dandy wrapup of U.S. intelligence budgets, including those he’s FOIA-ed. Links to multiple years, and some graphics. Well worth bookmarking.
Defense cuts would cost 1 million+ jobs, economist says
By SB Anderson
IMAGE SOURCE: SecondToNone.org.
(WashPost) As the bipartisan debt “supercommittee” was meeting publicly for the fourth time Wednesday morning in the Hart Senate Office Building, the House Armed Services Committee was gathered across the Capitol campus in the Rayburn Building to examine the possible effects of the Pentagon cuts that would be enacted if the 12-member panel fails to complete its task.
The outlook: Not pretty, at least to hear one of the panel’s witnesses tell it.
George Mason University professor Stephen Fuller told the Armed Services Committee members that if the supercommittee pulls the “trigger” on hundreds of billions of dollars in cuts to Pentagon spending, the result will be the loss of more than 1 million jobs.