[saywhatagain]

Has any one checked this out and understand the meaning and purpose? I am seeing it around, without explanation. apparently written after the signing of the bill. May have some supporting docs from anons. will see. It may be kinda important

Text of a Letter from the President to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President of the Senate

[defconw]

Where the heck are you? Are you OK?

[SkyPilot]

That 1985 bill is also referred to as Gramm-Rudman-Hollings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gramm%E2%80%93Rudman%E2%80%93Hollings_Balanced_Budget_Act

I haven't heard about that for years.

The Acts provided for automatic spending cuts ("cancellation of budgetary resources", called "sequestration") if the total discretionary appropriations in various categories exceed in a fiscal year the budget spending thresholds.[4] That is, if Congress enacts appropriation bills providing for discretionary outlays in each fiscal year that exceed the budget totals, unless Congress passes another budget resolution increasing the budget amount, an across-the-board spending cut in discretionary expenditure is automatically triggered on these categories, affecting all departments and programs by an equal percentage. The amount exceeding the limit is held back by the Treasury and not transferred to the agencies specified in the appropriation bills.[5] Under the 1985 Act, allowable deficit levels were calculated for the eventual elimination of the federal deficit. If the budget exceeded the allowable deficit, across-the-board cuts were required. Directors of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) were required to report to the Comptroller General regarding their recommendations for how much must be cut. The Comptroller General then evaluated these reports, made his own conclusion, and gave a recommendation to the President, who was then required to issue an order effecting the reductions required by the Comptroller General unless Congress made the required cuts by other ways within a specified amount of time.

Trump may be trying to sequester domestic spending.

[MNDude]

WOW!

[greeneyes]

I have no idea, but I would guess that it has something to do with sequestration. General Mattis gave several speeches while he was retired explaining just how harmful that sequestration was to the military with an across the board slash, instead of studying what could be cut and what needed to stay the same or increase.

[Cboldt]

-- Has any one checked this out and understand the meaning and purpose? --

See post 1824 for my take on the letter from the WH, concerning the 2018 Omnibus Appropriations Bill.

[Keyhopper]

That noise you heat is a football being yanked out of the way.