Expect FCC, FTC FY 2018 Budget Proposals in Mid-May, OMB Says
FY 2018 funding details for the FCC and FTC “will be provided when the full budget is released in mid-May,” a spokesman for the White House Office of Management and Budget told us. May is when the White House said…
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it will release a fuller plan. The administration released a slim version Thursday, which showed cuts for the Commerce Department and a wholesale axing of the CPB (see 1703160060). That budget proposal also referred to a 9.8 percent cut to “other agencies,” not naming specific ones. The OMB spokesman said these unnamed agencies wouldn't receive such a cut across the board. Congressional appropriators have discretion on how much leeway they show the administration proposal. John Holdren, who directed the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy during the Obama administration, issued a statement saying the budget outline's enactment would be a setback “for U.S. leadership in science and technology.”