The big losers in the continuing resolution that keeps the federal government going through September include the rural poor, wildland fire suppression and the environment, according to Ezra Klein's Wonkblog, a publication of The Washington Post.
The resolution "did bolster funds for a wide swath of popular programs — ranging from Head Start and local firefighters to cancer research and clean water projects in rural communities — to ease some of the sting of the across-the-board sequester cuts that are still in place," Suzy Khimm writes. "But it helped those initiatives at the expense of other programs because Congress is still required to comply with the overall caps to spending under the Budget Control Act passed in 2011 to resolve the debt-ceiling standoff."
The cuts include $570 million in wildland fire management; $106 million at the Environmental Protection Agency, including Superfund site cleanup and tribal assistance; and $20 million in rental assistance for the rural poor. (Read more)
The resolution "did bolster funds for a wide swath of popular programs — ranging from Head Start and local firefighters to cancer research and clean water projects in rural communities — to ease some of the sting of the across-the-board sequester cuts that are still in place," Suzy Khimm writes. "But it helped those initiatives at the expense of other programs because Congress is still required to comply with the overall caps to spending under the Budget Control Act passed in 2011 to resolve the debt-ceiling standoff."
The cuts include $570 million in wildland fire management; $106 million at the Environmental Protection Agency, including Superfund site cleanup and tribal assistance; and $20 million in rental assistance for the rural poor. (Read more)
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