How federal across-the-board cuts could affect Oregon
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The White House compiled the numbers from federal agencies and its own budget office. The numbers reflect the impact of the cuts this year. Unless Congress acts by Friday, $85 billion in cuts are set to take effect from March-September.
As to whether states could move money around to cover shortfalls, the White House said that depends on state budget structures and the specific programs. The White House did not have a list of which states or programs might have flexibility.
Some examples of programs that could be cut in Oregon:
EDUCATION:
- $10.2 million for primary and secondary education, putting around 140 teacher and aide jobs at risk. About 40 fewer schools would receive funding.
- $6.4 million for education of children with disabilities, jeopardizing the jobs of 80 teachers, aides and staff.
- About 240 fewer low-income students would receive aid to help them finance the costs of college.
- About 600 children would lose access to Head Start and Early Head Start.
ENVIRONMENT:
- $1.9 million to ensure clean water and air quality, and to prevent pollution from pesticides and hazardous waste.
- $1.1 million in grants for fish and wildlife protection.
MILITARY:
- Furloughs for 3,000 civilian Department of Defense workers would reduce gross pay by $16.5 million.
- Base operation funding for the Army would be cut by about $1.6 million.
POLICE:
- $155,000 in grants that support law enforcement, courts, corrections, drug treatment and enforcement, and crime victim initiatives.
EMPLOYMENT:
- $470,000 for job search assistance, referral and placement.
CHILD CARE:
- Up to 300 disadvantaged and vulnerable children could lose access to child care.
VACCINES:
- 1,670 fewer children would receive vaccines.
PUBLIC HEALTH:
- $890,000 in grants to help prevent and treat substance abuse, resulting in about 3,800 fewer admissions to substance abuse programs.
- $366,000 in funds to help Oregon upgrade its ability to respond to public health threats including infectious diseases, natural disasters, and biological, chemical, nuclear and radiological events.
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE:
- $81,000 in funds that provide services to victims of domestic violence.
SENIORS:
- $690,000 in funds that provide meals for seniors.
Copyright 2013 The Associated Press.
Propaganda! It is all propaganda! KATU is reporting just what the whitehouse dictates! This is not news, it is propaganda!
This article is a disgrace. Â Why are you promoting this propaganda? Â Our budget for this year is bigger than it was last year. Â It is 85 billion less that it was supposed to increase. Â You are doing a big disservice to your customers.
And the bill FINALLY comes due.....
Austerity flunked in Europe, GOP has been playing hostage taker instead of meeting in the middle, meanwhile elderly, children, and vets get kicked, what is patriotic about that? This has to be worst Congress, a true contender.
It started out as Land of the free, but it turned into Land of the Freeloader....
I've worked over 47 years and have not received one dime in handout money... Shame on the losers who won't work !!!!
@dougrpdx I take it you don't have kids and didn't attend public school yourself? Unless you're homeschooling or paying for private school, you're dipping in the biggest entitlement pool of all - subsidized schoolcare.Â
Clearly Washington, District of Criminals isn't serious about making cuts to the defense department.Â
The current budget is around $900 Billion for 2012. It is the highest it has ever been, and continues to climb. If someone was actually serious they'd start with the biggest expense and make serious cuts.
I'm all for a strong military and all that, but this country is nose diving into the ground and all they'll do is barely even glance at the bloated military budget with some token cuts to pretty much nothing. All of the other cuts could be replaced by cuts to the military and still not make much of a dent when it comes to keeping our military top-notch. Maybe it's time to officially dump the F-35.
@axpman The military is scheduled to take 50% of the 85 billion and they just finished taking a huge cut already. Â
This reminds be how the state or local gov always threatens police and fire unless we agree to pay more:
How about cutting some of the 8 billion we've spend on salmon.  Ban all Salmon fishing for 5-10 years, and let's see what they do, how they adapt.  Hatcheries, damn breaching, obsessive water run off laws for commercial fisherman and sport fishers, absurd.Â
How about eliminating the national guard and calling it what it is, regular reserve forces.  Over 300,000 "national" guardsmen were deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, where in they immediately fall under the regular command.  Dumb and redundant command structures.  Â
Stop all no-grow subsidies.  Paying farmers not to grow a crop is ridiculous.
How about streamlining and consolidate some federal law enforcement agencies.  Talk about fiefdoms ... Run it like a business.  Elect a real businessman vs a party darling.
U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations
U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
U.S. Defense Criminal Investigative Service
Defense Intelligence Agency
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration
U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation
Federal Protective Service
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
U.S. IRS Criminal Investigations Division
U.S. Marshal Service
U.S. Naval Criminal Investigative Service
U.S. Postal Inspection Service
U.S. State Department Bureau of Diplomatic Security
U.S. Secret Service
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Office of Inspector General
U.S. Department of Commerce, Office of Inspector General
U.S. Department of Defense, Office of Inspector General
U.S. Department of Education, Office of Inspector General
U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Inspector General
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Office of Inspector General
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development, Office of Inspector General
U.S. Department of Interior, Office of Inspector General
U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Inspector General
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Inspector General
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Office of Inspector General
U.S. Postal Service, Office of Inspector General
U.S. National Aeronautics & Space Administration, Office of Inspector General
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office of Inspector General
U.S. Office of Personnel Management, Office of Inspector General
U.S. Railroad Retirement Board, Office of Inspector General
U.S. Small Business Administration, Office of Inspector General
U.S. Social Security Administration, Office of Inspector General
U.S. State Department, Office of Inspector General
U.S. Department of Transportation, Office of Inspector General
U.S. Department of the Treasury, Office of Inspector General
U.S. Treasury IG for Tax Administration
 U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Inspector General
@trololol Why do not we cut aid to our enemies
Well, we're giving the top banks $83,000,000,000 this year.
Also, Section 255, page 19 of the Budget Control Act includes âCompensation for the Presidentâ as one of those exemptions from sequester.
THE EXECUTIVE'S PAY IS PROTECTED WHILE HEADSTART IS SCRAPPED AND FEDERAL EMPLOYEES ARE FIRED. HAHAHAAA!!!!    Where's the Occupy movement all of a sudden?
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@James Gnau
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-20/why-should-taxpayers-give-big-banks-83-billion-a-year-.html
Folks, we aren't going to grow our way out of this massive spending problem. It started with Reagan, and every president has continued to make the problem worse. We need to be cutting 10 times this amount just to stop adding to the deficit. I am firmly convinced now that the only way this spending will stop is with a full collapse of the dollar and economy. We should have let the economy fall in 2008 and taken our medicine then, but no, we spent trillions more.Â
 I hope the disenfranchised D's and R's buck their parties and join the Libertarians. There is growing momentum, I believe we will finally have a viable third party in this country focused on social tolerance and fiscal responsibility. The Republican party will not survive with it's social intolerance, the Democrat party will lose support because of the reckless spending and nanny state policies.Â
There are many frustrated, intelligent voters who realize the D's and R's are spending our future away. Time to cut up the credit cards and get these idiots out of office.Â
Libertarians in 2014 & 2016!
@Torino_v2
Actually is "started" during the revolution and has become exacerbated since Truman and blew up huge during Reagan.Â
This is some world class fear mongering by the left.  85B in cuts on a  3,800B dollar budget is ONLY 2% FREAKIN  PERCENT.Â
On top of that  B HO has  the  flexibility to decide  where most of  cuts  will  hit.  But instead of doing the responsible thing in cutting the pork like  solar subsidies and the like.  Bronco Bamma and his band of stooges are  suggesting  very visible cuts that tug on the heart strings of  Americans.  Its rather despicable  to make  these kinds of political cuts  vs just cutting the pork.ÂAnd if we didn't get enough of our POTUS  LYING to us about Benghazi,  he's lying  to us AGAIN  about  the  sequester not being his idea. Â
@kramr Oh yeah, there's pork all over the place that can be cut!! I don't understand why people are focusing on right or left cuts. Hell with that! Start with the biggest piece of the pie, defense, then work your way down to these other stupid programs and subsidies (including left ones). At this time, we can no longer afford the luxury of right vs left, we're drowning in debt and everybody needs to suck it up, eat their pride and take a few punches.
@Morticae The solution to help us all will benefit neither the right or left politically.
Government workers will lose jobs? Sounds good to me!
@RabidAlley Except the President. He doesn't even lose a single dollar out of his compensation.
Only in Washington is less growth in spending called a drastic cut. Â
Interesting that information/newsâ by fed to us by the Associated Press (just rebrand by media like KATU) continues to only feed us sanitized information from the White House. âIn our real world, reality of our local trenches it is twisted, inaccurate misinformation, which cannot be trusted. The drama, game playing, etc. make it appear they are âworkingâ in DC. These are not cuts.The more accurate way to describe this is simply holding the line and not allowing the automatic bloat in a âprojectedâ budget increases. Congress is spending time on the wrong things.A programmed distraction by Obama.
Those cuts don't seem so drastic and they would be made over a time period. I say let it happen. Spread the hurt. It seems to me that the only faction that has not felt pain the past few years are those who pay nothing into the system anyway. Now, lets also cut crop/farm subsidies, oil company subsidies and any earmark approved in the past 4 years that is still being funded. Then, lets look at it again and see where else we can cut. The war hawks who say that we will hurt defense obvioulsy never spent a day in uniform. We can cut a few programs (F-35) and still be the dominant power in the world.
Let's just get on with the mandatory cuts and get it over with. If its no big deal as Shadow below us suggests everything is cool. But if these figures are not bogus, I guess we will just have to live with the outcomes.Â
That's a good start, now keep cutting until we can afford to live with in our budget.. ,,,,
Now that the democrats have given us their figures, which we can assume are mostly overblown or downright lies, let's hear the real truth from someone who really is an expert. Â You won't find him or her in the White House or in Salem or in Olympia.Â