Budget Package Lauded as Senate Opens Its Debate
WASHINGTON — The Senate opened debate on a $1.1-trillion budget for fiscal 1990 Tuesday and was told that the spending package “spreads the pain fairly and equally” across the range of federal government programs.
Chairman Jim Sasser (D-Tenn.) of the Senate Budget Committee also said the budget worked out with President Bush was the “best compromise possible” and rejected suggestions that it consists of “smoke and mirrors, deception or sleight-of-hand.”
The budget resolutions in the Senate and in the House, which begins debate today, are very similar. They would cut the deficit by $28 billion to $99.4 billion--just under the $100-billion target set by the Gramm-Rudman law.
The Senate and House overall totals are virtually identical and they have the same freeze on defense spending.
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