Reality Check on Budgets

Chairwoman Mikulski Focuses on Community Security and Competitiveness in CJS Spending Bill

“The bill provides $17.8 billion for NASA, $200 million above the President’s request.”

Editor’s note: Rep. Obey has all but conceded that the only appropriations bills that he will allow to move to a floor vote are Defense and perhaps Homeland Security. The common consensus is that the rest of the agencies will see their budgets bundled into a Continuting Resolution. As such, all of the budget increases that are being tossed around are seen more as more guidance for the next Adminstration than the current one. Whether these numbers end up in budgets is TBD.