Obama plans to announce a 3 year freeze on discretionary non-security spending during his first State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress tomorrow evening according to Senior White House officials.
The shifty policy move is intended to blunt the populist backlash against Obama’s $787 Billion Dollar now $862 Billion Dollar Economic Stimulus program which the CBO says, will cost taxpayers more than originally believed, as more people are collecting unemployment benefits because they’ve lost jobs which the failed bill was supposed to have preserved.
Obama Shifty Budgetary Positions: Obama To Propose Spending Freeze
Obama Campaigned Against Spending Freeze