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their own rhetoric helped trigger,
but which are now beyond their
control.
Until now, the GOP House
leadership has enforced unusu-
ally effective party discipline. But
GOP leaders like House Speak-
er Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., are
thinking more and more about
next year's elections, and about
the political implications of the
way they redraw the budget.
Many House newcomers, far
more conservative, are chafing at
that kind of political pragmatism.
What does all this mean for the
Jewish community?
First, it promises tough times
for Jewish agencies that use a
combination of philanthropic and
government money to provide vi-
tal social services for
Jews around the
country.
Huge cuts in so-
cial spending are a
given; the only ques-
tion is one of degree.
That will mean less
money for Jewish
Family Service
agencies, Jewish Vo-
cational Services,
Jewish food banks,
communal housing
programs, medical
and mental health
clinics, an array of
services for the el-
derly.
At the same time,
demand for those
services will soar as
many Jews feel the
gency if Congress passes the most impact of cuts in direct govern-
drastic budget proposals — and ment programs and entitlements.
which fears significant damage
The House-passed welfare re-
to U.S.-Israeli relations if the bat- form bill will result in substan-
tle over numbers too large for or- tial reductions in an array of basic
dinary people to comprehend services, including things like
spins out of control.
food stamps — a program that
This week, House Republicans serves almost a quarter-million
were on retreat. At the top of Jews, many of them elderly.
their agenda was the question of
The House bill also saves mon-
how to work toward a balanced
budget — and how to make up ey by barring legal immigrants,
for the $300 billion tax cut pack- including thousands of Jews from
age passed earlier this spring — the former Soviet Union, from re-
without alienating key con- ceiving benefits from a long list
of basic services, including food
stituent groups.
Some Republicans are getting stamps and Supplemental Secu-
cold feet about the slash-and- rity Income (SSI). Again, hard-
burn budgeting that will be re- pressed Jewish communal
quired to fulfill the GOP institutions will be called on to
make up the difference.
promises.
But the budget cutting process
The budget cutting frenzy that
has taken on a life of its own; will take place in the next two
House leaders are, in a sense, be- months could also be bad news
ing driven by political forces that for Israel and the peace process.
n Congress, the focus has shift-
ed from mundane domestic
matters to the fight against
terrorism. Suddenly, bills in-
tended to curb both foreign and
domestic terrorism are the issues
du jour on the nightly news —
not the Republicans Contract
with America.
But that doesn't alter the fact
that the next 100 days will fea-
ture the biggest skirmishes yet
in the Battle of the Budget — an
all-out war between the new con-
servative congressional leader-
ship and those Democrats who
still support at least a remnant
of the nation's social safety net.
That battle is rich with impli-
cations for a Jewish community
that faces a communal emer-