Jonathan Weisman at the Wall Street Journal reminds us that we’re still waiting on those spending cuts.
Three months ago, when President Barack Obama announced he was extracting $100 million in spending cuts from his cabinet secretaries, the reviews were not terribly kind, not with a budget well in excess of $3 trillion and a budget deficit shooting toward $1.8 trillion.
But the president had a deadline to keep: “As part of his commitment to go line by line through the budget to cut spending and reform government he will challenge his cabinet to cut a collective 100 million dollars in the next 90 days,” the White House fact sheet proclaimed.
This is Day 91. In a budget of $3 trillion, it doesn’t exactly take wizardry to cut $100 million, but there is no word from the White House on when the reductions will be made.