The White House Office of Management and Budget thisnweek directed the Department of Energy and other federalnagencies to “intensify” their planning for what OMB saidnis “significant uncertainty” in the amount of funding to benavailable this fiscal year. Such uncertainty is tied to twonevents set to occur in March unless lawmakers takenaction—the significant funding cuts known as sequestrationnand the expiration of the Continuing Resolution thathas been funding federal agencies since the fiscal yearnbegan on Oct. 1. “At this time, agencies do not have claritynregarding the manner in which Congress will address thesenissues or the amount of budgetary resources that will benavailable through the remainder of the fiscal year. UntilnCongress acts, agencies must continue to prepare for thenpossibility that they will need to operate with reducednbudgetary resources,” OMB Deputy Director for ManagementnJeffrey Zients wrote in a Jan. 14 memorandum.
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