The Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Watt said that his office is considering more options to return the funding approved by the Congress and is not deciding to send more bills to MPs with further cuts before September.
Watt Confirmed on CBS News “Facing the nation with Margaret Brainon“Sunday that” we want to do [a] Rescue Package “To withdraw some funding from the Education Department. A rescue bill requests the President to cancel the already approved money by the Congress. Last week, President Trump Put signature on Foreign assistance, NPR and PBS funding to become the first President in decades to get approval for such measures.
“We are thrilled that we had the first rescue package in decades, and we moved forward the process again,” told about a cloback of $ 10 billion. There will be no rescue package before September, as the Congress tried to fund the government and close a shutdown, “It’s not here to say that we are looking at all our options, we will look at it and assess where the hill is, what are we have special funding opportunities?”
Asked about national health funding for research in heart disease and cancer, which has not been released yet, replied, “We are going through the same process with NIH that we did with education.” He alleged that NIH wasted the funds, “$ 2 million had claimed $ 2 million to inject dogs with cocaine that NIH spent $ 75,000 for Harvard, which to study lizards hiding from trees with leaf blowers.” He vowed to go to line by line to ensure that NIH is properly funded “and the funding would be released” when we are done with that review. “
Rescue measures to amend government spending are seen as a previous method of violating the constitutional power of the Congress by Democrats and some Republicans.
“Defense is just a Washington name for double cross,” Democratic Sen Chris Van Holen On Maryland, “Face the Nation”, also said after an interview of Wout on the program. “They support one day – the President also signs – and then they come back and say they change their mind.”
But the director of the OMB argued, “We have the ability and executive equipment to provide minimum funds compared to the Congress approved by the Congress under the Employees Control Act, which enables the President to delay the Congress spending money, and he did not deny a legal battle over the rights of the executive branch, which could be a legal battle that can be an agency, if it is” an agency “.
The Vuff has also made John Theun, the leader of the GOP Senate majority, with some headache, which he did on Thursday that the appropriation process should be “low bipartisan”. But it put a bond in October as a binding of talks to avoid a government shutdown, as the Republican holds a thin majority of 53 – 47 in the Senate, and most of the law will have to reach the 60 -Voter threshold.
“It is going to take 60 to fund the government,” the Theun said in response to Wout’s comment, and he said, “We plan to move forward [appropriations] Those bills will support Democrats. ,
Van Holen said that it was ironic that Wout was “calling for these deep deductions for education, NIH, when he asked for an increase for his OMB budget.” Van Holen said, “Reduction-in-in-or RIF-staff cuts, which cuts the administration across the government,” he asked for a 13% increase for his OMB budget. He asked more people to join OMB staff, while he is talking about RIF-ING people in other departments. ,
The Maryland Senator stated that the Democratic Senator, as they interact on the funding of government operations, “asking four Republican senators to declare publicly that they actually mean when they say that they are going to fund the veteran affairs affairs.”
