White House [OMB] Report Claims Sequestration Will Affect Federal Department That No Longer Exists

reason.com ^ | February 25, 2013 | Mike Riggs

[jiggyboy]

If you want a thorough agency-by-agency rundown of the budget cuts sequestration would deliver, the Office of Management and Budget has you covered. In compliance with The Sequestration Transparency Act of 2012, the OMB sent a detailed report to Congress in September 2012. But there's a small problem with the report: One of the cuts it warns against would affect an agency that no longer exists--and didn't exist when the OMB sent its report to congress.

The first line item on page 121 of the OMB's September 2012 report says that under sequestration the National Drug Intelligence Center would lose $2 million of its $20 million budget. While that's slightly more than 8.2 percent (rounding error or scare tactic?), the bigger problem is that the National Drug Intelligence Center shuttered its doors on June 15, 2012--three months before the OMB issued its report to Congress.

Might there be other errors in the OMB's report?

[noinfringers2]

Why should a non-existent agency be reported when the money can be kept pouring in to go to some covered up accounts? Think Vatican Bank and CJ Roberts, the Obama clan and even a bunch of congresspersons and whoever/whatever controls the flow of money.

[smoothsailing]

"To the last, I will grapple with thee... from Hell's heart, I stab at thee! For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee! "

"MURTHAAAAAAA!"

[OneWingedShark]

If the department isn’t there, where is the $20 million budgeted going?

The pockets of politicians?