During the internal debate, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton also expressed reservations about the scale of the reductions, officials said.
Since April, when Brown ordered the reductions, officials have urged residents to take shorter showers, cut down on car washing and allow their lawns to turn "golden brown".
While lower-than-expected cargo volumes played a role in those reductions, officials credit their Clean Truck Program and other voluntary initiatives with slashing emissions throughout the L.A.-Long L.A.-Long Beachlex over the last decade.
An economist who speaks fluent French, Mr Harper has tempered his past support for small government and a reduction in official bi-lingualism.
"You need to mobilize quite a lot of money for relatively little impact in terms of private sector involvement or debt reduction," the official said.
That, in turn, could give Washington a bit more leeway in its relations with Saudi Arabia, freeing it to press for a reduction in official corruption or for reining in radical Islamic groups.
For example, there has been a significant reduction in official development assistance from major donors for disaster relief and it is believed that this trend will continue even until the post-2015 period (Cahill 2012).
"The president will continue his engagement with outside leaders on a number of issues - including immigration reform and how it fits into his broader economic agenda, and his efforts to achieve balanced deficit reduction," the official told Reuters on Monday.
This may allow for early identification of suspected aggressors, potentially resulting in cost, time and manpower savings with reduction of official investigations at an earlier phase.
To offset that reduction, tourism officials have sought help from corporations seeking a higher profile in the city.
