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domestic Jewish concerns,
Among them was the built-in
"all the agencies which re-
growth of the massive "enti-
ceive federal funds may see a
tlement" programs, like So-
4.3 percent cut in 1986 and
cial Security, Medicare and
more in fiscal 1987. Old age
Medicaid — which Gramm-
homes, school lunch pro-
Rudman-Hollings leaves al-
grams, child care, education,
most untouched. Also, the
you name it."
Reagan Administration tax
•
In a case expected to go
cuts coupled with accelerated
quickly to the U.S. Supreme
defense spending, and the
(.,ourt, a District Court in
1982,83 recession further
Washington could agree with
reduced revenues. The latter
a challenge to Gramm-Rud-
delayed economic growth as
man-Hollings that it un-
well.
constitutionally gave away
Pressure mounted on Con-
gress to do something to slow
Congressional budget-mak-
ing authority. Much of the in-
the escalating annual deficits
and resultant national debt
formation and many of the
— which amounts to a mort-
steps necessary to fire the
gage on the nation's future.
law's automatic trigger and
Gramm-Rudman-Hollings,
impose across-the-board cuts
depends not on Congress but
•reportedly described by one
of its originators as "a bad
on appointed officials in the
idea whose time has come,"
Office of Management and
won approval from a Con-
Budget, Congressional Bud-
gress unable to agree on any
geting Office and General Ac-
other way to impose fiscal
counting Office.
discipline on the government
But even if the courts over-
andd itself.
turn the provision, for auto-
This discipline will prove
matic across-the-board per-
painful, for the country in
centage reductions it would
general and for aid to Israel
also have to sustain the sec-
and social welfare programs
ond constitutional challenge
• on the Jewish domestic agen-
to Gramm-Rudman-Hollings.
da in particular.
As raised by the plaintiffs, it
is simply, "Can one Congress
tell a future Congress how to
•Eric Rozenman is assistant
appropriate funds?" If it can,
editor of Near East Report..
Witman says, then "the defi-
Ralph Nurnberger is a
cit targets are not in ques-
legislative liaison for the
tion.
American Israel Public Af-
"So it won't be whether
fairs Committee. •
Congress has to cut, but how.
, .
Over the next five years —
unless Congress amends
Gramm-Rudman - they must
meet those deficit targets.
That means budget cuts, rais-
BY ALAN HITSKY
ing taxes or both."
News Editor
She does not believe that
Gramm-Rudman isn't a dirty
private philanthropy, which
• word in Detroit ... yet. But
could not make up for social
area administrators for human
program reductions in the
service agencies are concerned
early Reagan Administra-
that the Federal budget-cutting
tion, will be able to take up
bill could eventually make
the slack from Gramm-Rud-
havoc of their agency budgets
. man. Nor will state funding. • and programs.
be likely to help. Budget
"Nobody really knows the im-
surpluses now held by some
plications," said Samuel Lerner,
states would vanish after one
executive director of the Jewish
year, Witman said.
Family Service and Resettle-
Although Senators Gramm,
ment Service. "Nobody knows
Rudman and Hollings intro-
yet what they will be forced to
duced their proposal sudden-
cut."
ly last September, and al-
• Lerner is worried that specific
Congressional budget cuts or
though it passed the House
across-the-board cuts will devas-
and Senate without commit-
tate human service programs
tee analysis or debate, it did
that have gradually been built
not materialize from a vacu-
up since the Depression-era
um. It took the united States
"New Deal" of Franklin
200 years to amass a national
Roosevelt. "If they take $11 bil-
debt of $100 trillion, reaching
lion out of a (Federal) budget,
that point in 1981. Only four
the reality is that they will cut
years later the national debt
across the board."
arrived at $200 trillion.
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Very little of Jewish: Family
A number of causes contri-.
•
Service's budget would be di-
buted to America's skyrock-
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