It is interesting to read how money is spent on stupid research. Millions. But yet they can’t open the WH which costs like 18,000 per week to run????
The White House might be targeting some of the cuts for maximum political effect, but many programs were insulated from the sequestration. I can’t say what’s going on with the White House’s budget cuts, but I do think it looks like a political ploy. The same thing typically happens when a state doesn’t get more money it wants. It starts cutting the most visible and painful things, like police and the fire department.
However, the DoD really is the exception. It’s getting hit way out of proportion to amount of money cut. It’s like I told you to save $100 out of a $5000 budget, but I didn’t tell you until you were halfway through the year’s spending and refused to let you change spending on $4500 worth of items.