Obama finds extra cash under sequester. Guess who gets it and who doesn't.

[geek tragedy]

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/hill-aides-white-house-recalculating-some-sequestration-cuts.php?ref=fpa

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House budget office is recalculating how to apply automatic spending cuts for a handful of agencies, freeing up almost $4 billion for the Pentagon and another $1 billion or so for Homeland Security Department and NASA.

Yep. They were only able to find money for stuff Republicans like--the MIC and Security State.

Sorry, Meals on Wheels and Head Start.

[Ian David]

1. He also sent a bunch to homeless shelters.

OBAMA ADMINISTRATION RENEWS SUPPORT FOR MORE THAN 500 LOCAL HOMELESS PROGRAMS ACROSS THE U.S.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/11029579

[geek tragedy]

2. That wasn't a restoration of sequester funding and it's chicken feed

compared to the $4 billion for the MIC he found under the mattress.

[Ian David]

6. Well, yeah. n/t

[kardonb]

14. g d

whats all the grousing about money for Homeland security . Next time we have a terrorist attack in-country again , the same folks will howl why we did not spend more on HS . You can't please all the people all the time , and some sourpusses NEVER .

[caseymoz]

17. If we'd withdraw our troops from other countries

we'd have far less terrorism for much cheaper.

[Skittles]

7. that is a bone toss

the real meat goes elsewhere

[Ian David]

19. It always does. n/t

[Skittles]

20. naw, our Dems toss us bones

we get shit with repukes - so that's what it's all about now - being grateful for crumbs

[Ian David]

21. A disappointing friend versus a deadly enemy. n/t

[reformist2]

28. So true. I love that phrase.

[Cha]

10. Thanks Ian.. In their ongoing "Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness..." since 2010

In 2010, President Obama and 19 federal agencies and offices that form the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) launched the nation’s first comprehensive strategy to prevent and end homelessness. Opening Doors: Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness puts the country on a path to end veterans and chronic homelessness by 2015 and to ending homelessness among children, family, and youth by 2020.

View a complete list of all the state and local homeless projects awarded funding. http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/program_offices/comm_planning/homeless/budget/2012

http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/press/press_releases_media_advisories/2013/HUDNo.13-062

[winter is coming]

12. A bunch of people or a bunch of money? n/t

[villager]

3. plus ca "change..."

alas...

[OKNancy]

4. Reading farther down

At issue in the latest recalculation are accounts that were cut more deeply under a full-year funding bill enacted in March than they would have been under the across-the-board cuts. They get funds restored. It’s up to the White House Office of Management and Budget to calculate the across-the-board cuts.

The State Department said Friday that cuts to its budget would be only $400 million, less than half of $850 million that was originally estimated. That means it was able to avoid furloughing workers.

It sounds like these were already Pentagon, HSD, and NASA funds anyway. It's not like they could take the funds and move them somewhere else. Hopefully, other agencies will be able to do this too.

[geek tragedy]

5. So the sequester has higher defense spending than the original defense appropriations did?

Or just certain programs (which are likely wasteful ergo their being cut in the full year appropriation)?

[Cha]

8. Thanks for posting the Enlightenment, OKNancy.

"That means it was able to avoid furloughing workers."

Yes!

Hopefully, other agencies will be able to do this too.

[Iliyah]

13. Thats the way I'm reading it

also. Plus the funding for homeless shelters re: job training and a place to stay with meals sounds like its moving in a good directions. Los Angeles surely needs it.

I'm pretty sure Pres O and his Admin. will work around the party of hell no and somehow restore head start, meals on wheels and cancer treatment/prescription for cancer patients all the while the corporate media and GOP will bash and trash with misinformation.

Its like budgeting with less money but barely keeping up with bills. Soon or later, tax revenues will come about from the 1-2%, loopholes closed, corporations paying their fair corporate taxes, and another one - stopping subsidies will work wonders for the economy and the creation of good paying jobs.

[sammy27932003]

27. Soldiers I talked to last night said,

"We want boots up any politician that talks about another effing war.Tell Israel to fight their own wars.We have 25% of the kids in this country homeless and hungry.We can not feed our kids or get healthcare.We need jobs."

[truedelphi]

9. I will not vote for neo-con Dems

And I will not like them
here or there.
I would not like them
anywhere.

I do not like
The neo Dems. In fact
I think they give me phlegm!
I do not like them,
Sam-I-am.

Would you like them
in a house?
Would you like them
with a mouse?
Or maybe with a rat or snake or banker?
Or with some oil exec who needs
a huge oil tanker?

I do not like them
in a house.
I do not like them
with a mouse.
And certainly NOT
with a rat or snake or banker.
And certainly not with some oil exec
who needs a huge oil tanker.

I do not like them
here or there.
I do not like them
anywhere.
I do not like neo Dems. In fact
I think they give me phlegm!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

22. This is most excellent, my dear truedelphi!

Thank you for your inventiveness.

[truedelphi]

24. Thank you, Calif Peggy, I just hope Dr Seuss wouldn't mind.

But then, I have the feeling he was for things like our local schools having a decent budget and for Head Start.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

25. I'm sure he would not have minded...

He was very much in favor of those progressive ideas.

[bahrbearian]

11. Of Course!

[obxhead]

15. Wait!

Oh.... That's not the onion.

[Cha]

23. No, it's not the Onion, obxhead, but, there's more to the story

if you look further. Which is a lot of times the case.

At issue in the latest recalculation are accounts that were cut more deeply under a full-year funding bill enacted in March than they would have been under the across-the-board cuts. They get funds restored. It’s up to the White House Office of Management and Budget to calculate the across-the-board cuts.

The State Department said Friday that cuts to its budget would be only $400 million, less than half of $850 million that was originally estimated. That means it was able to avoid furloughing workers.

It sounds like these were already Pentagon, HSD, and NASA funds anyway. It's not like they could take the funds and move them somewhere else. Hopefully, other agencies will be able to do this too

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=2794251

[dkf]

16. Ummm...they had cut deeper than the sequester so now they are using the sequester numbers.

"At issue in the latest recalculation are accounts that were cut more deeply under a full-year funding bill enacted in March than they would have been under the across-the-board cuts. They get funds restored. It’s up to the White House Office of Management and Budget to calculate the across-the-board cuts."

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/hill-aides-white-house-recalculating-some-sequestration-cuts.php?ref=fpa

[Iliyah]

18. Uh huh

un-name source. Same damn thing they said about the 716 billion on Medicare huh. What did they do? Took one overly paid program and restructured it into another in Medicare.

[Wilms]

26. ^