The $2.3 billion interdiction budget bore the imprint of Mr. Walters, who has long advocated stronger enforcement.
His first budget bore the fingerprints of the bloke next door.
The White House reduced the damage by sparing some safety-net programs and making sure the military budget bore a fair share of the impact.
This aspect of him, which the obituaries missed, was given its due at the memorial meeting — by, of all people, Kofi Annan, the former U.N. Secretary General, and Pete Peterson, the former Nixon Commerce Secretary, former chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations, and current billionaire slash budget bore.
WASHINGTON -- As a group of top lawmakers looks to hammer out a relatively small-bore budget agreement by mid-December, it's becoming increasingly apparent that the main sticking point is how to relieve the pain of sequestration.
Quangos including Historic England, the British Film Institute, the Equalities and Human Rights Commission, the Royal Parks Agency, Sports Ground Safety Authority, UK Anti-Doping and UK Sport's admin budget all bore the brunt of the 7% overall cuts in 2013 and are expected to do so again.
But making the relatively tiny international affairs budget bear a disproportionately big share of necessary cuts would be fooling ourselves.
Finally, Congress will face continued pressures from farmers and Medicare providers who feel that they bore the brunt of past budget cuts.
Just before Christmas in 2007, a budget showdown between Congress and President Bush led to unexpected, deep cuts in the science budgets, and SLAC bore much of the brunt.
This week those conversations bore fantastic fruit, with a budgeted pledge to create and properly protect one of the most important new marine reserves in the world.
One thing we can be quite sure about next week: the budget will bear no resemblance to Denis Healey's last budget in 1979, when the Callaghan government lost a vote of confidence (on devolution).
