6% across the board to non-defense, 9% across the board to Defense, which translated to a 13% reduction because it fell in middle of the fiscal year.
Yes, deep. The "2%" cut you hear Sean Hannity spinning is not accurate, because 63% of all spending is on Entitlements, and they are exempt from Sequestration. That means 37% of the rest (non-mandatory spending) took 100% o of the cuts. For Defense, it is much worse - they are 17% of the overall budget, yet they absorb 50% of the cuts by law.
I GUARNANTEE you that is Social Security checks were cut 6% or 9%, people would be SCREAMING that those were deep cuts.
You know that as well.
/johnny
Well I don’t watch TV anymore, haven’t done so for years. So don’t know don’t care what Hannity has to say about anything. I know he still affects new viewers to conservative perspectives which is good but in sum he’s not much use to seasoned conservatives.
I think all the cuts you are referring to are cuts to programmed increases and not baseline budgets. So if the programmed increase for fiscal year was 3% the for example a 6% cut to a 3% increase leaves a 2.82% increase.