Fourth, the cultural leaders said, Mr. Giuliani was engaging in the pleasant task of spending hundreds of millions of dollars in the budgets of future mayors, who will bear the expenses when he office next year.
Even worse, they direct the leader of the House Budget Committee to ignore several costs when computing the budget impact of future actions, as if the costs are the natural course of politics for which no payment is required.
This doesn't feel like a Duplass brothers' movie -- it feels like bridging the gap between cinephiles and the mainstream in hopes of getting a nice budget for future passion projects.
He cited close co-operation, such as on defence and on the EU budgets of the future, where both countries are asking for "real restraint".
And they passed through the dimly lighted oak lobby of the storied hotel en route to strategy sessions, as "super PAC" heavy hitters — Carl Forti, who directs the more than $100 million political ad budget of Restore Our Future, a pro-Romney group, and Charles Spies, the group's lawyer — chatted just in front of the reception desk.
Polls, however, suggest that there is little political advantage in explaining the reality of future budget math.
When former President George W. Bush campaigned for big tax cuts in 2000, he claimed that these cuts were affordable given (unrealistic) projections of future budget surpluses.
The same goes for using federal power to hold down Medicare costs, which will be the key driver of future budget deficits.
Ms. Mikulski, who leads the powerful Appropriations Committee, has been the most forceful voice in efforts to blunt the impact of future budget cuts.
Jack Lew, the director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, said Congress should adopt a restrained estimate of future budget surpluses, as Mr. Clinton has.
