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Nothing Else Cut From WH Spending Yet “Because Of Sequester”, Except “Popular” WH Tours That Interact With Public Update: WH Doesn’t Even Answer Question If Obama Will Cut Back On Golf
President Obama tells us that the sequester caused the White House to have to shut down White House tours, saying they were so sorry that they had to shut down the “popular tours”. The picture above is of St. Paul’s Lutheran School, a private Christian school, whose sixth graders would like to go on their planned White House tour, but now can’t. They are not making a political statement, they would just like to visit the White House.
What is the most public interaction with the White House? Why the tours, of course. What better way to try to say to people, oh no, big bad sequester, it’s hurting all of us!
Yet, perhaps not so much.
As we saw yesterday, it isn’t hurting President Obama’s ability to take his yearly trip to tony Martha’s Vineyard or to take a 20 car motorcade of security to go 6 blocks for dinner.
Surprise, surprise, there haven’t as yet been any other cuts in White House spending alleged because of the sequester, so three guesses as to why the “popular” tours were chosen.
Yes, the White House gets to chose what areas, so they chose cutting the people’s access to the people’s house, before anything else, like Obama’s golf, vacations, or dinner outings.
Says something about his priorities.
Via Bloomberg:
While President Barack Obama has spent weeks warning of the dark consequences of across-the-board budget cuts, there’s one area of government where his staff has failed to calculate their impact: the White House itself.
President Obama tells us that the sequester caused the White House to have to shut down White House tours.
Obama administration spokesman Jay Carney told reporters Thursday that “detailed decisions” have yet to be made about how the administration would meet a projected $24 million reduction to the executive office budget, which may include furloughs of presidential aides and other employees.
“I’m not going say that this person is going have to be furloughed today, if that hasn’t happened yet and we don’t know when that will happen specifically,” he said.
Under a law passed in 2011, $85 billion in automatic spending cuts, known as sequestration, began on March 1 for the remainder of this fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30.
The law requires the executive office of the president, which has about 2,000 employees, to cut approximately $24 million out of its $711 million fiscal year 2013 budget request, according to a report by the White House Office of Management and Budget released the day the reductions came into effect.
Keep reading…
Update: When asked whether President Obama would be cutting back on golf, White House Deputy Press Secretary Josh Earnest didn’t even bother to answer.
President Obama tells us that the sequester caused the White House to have to shut down White House tours, saying they were so sorry that they had to shut down the “popular tours”. The picture above is of St. Paul’s Lutheran School, a private Christian school, whose sixth graders would like to go on their planned White House tour, but now can’t. They are not making a political statement, they would just like to visit the White House.
What is the most public interaction with the White House? Why the tours, of course. What better way to try to say to people, oh no, big bad sequester, it’s hurting all of us!
Yet, perhaps not so much.
As we saw yesterday, it isn’t hurting President Obama’s ability to take his yearly trip to tony Martha’s Vineyard or to take a 20 car motorcade of security to go 6 blocks for dinner.
Surprise, surprise, there haven’t as yet been any other cuts in White House spending alleged because of the sequester, so three guesses as to why the “popular” tours were chosen.
Yes, the White House gets to chose what areas, so they chose cutting the people’s access to the people’s house, before anything else, like Obama’s golf, vacations, or dinner outings.
Says something about his priorities.
Via Bloomberg:
While President Barack Obama has spent weeks warning of the dark consequences of across-the-board budget cuts, there’s one area of government where his staff has failed to calculate their impact: the White House itself.
President Obama tells us that the sequester caused the White House to have to shut down White House tours.
Obama administration spokesman Jay Carney told reporters Thursday that “detailed decisions” have yet to be made about how the administration would meet a projected $24 million reduction to the executive office budget, which may include furloughs of presidential aides and other employees.
“I’m not going say that this person is going have to be furloughed today, if that hasn’t happened yet and we don’t know when that will happen specifically,” he said.
Under a law passed in 2011, $85 billion in automatic spending cuts, known as sequestration, began on March 1 for the remainder of this fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30.
The law requires the executive office of the president, which has about 2,000 employees, to cut approximately $24 million out of its $711 million fiscal year 2013 budget request, according to a report by the White House Office of Management and Budget released the day the reductions came into effect.
Keep reading…
Update: When asked whether President Obama would be cutting back on golf, White House Deputy Press Secretary Josh Earnest didn’t even bother to answer.
