Clinton's '97 Mini-Budget Pledges R&D Boost—But

摘要

The abbreviated budget document that the President sent to Congress last week allows the interpretation that additional money will be sought for some federal research programs for fiscal year 1997, beginning next October 1. Maybe. But in present fiscal and political circumstances, more is not likely to be very much more, if any at all. The 20-page document, uncontaminated by proposed dollar amounts for the government's agencies, is cagily worded and reads more like a political pamphlet than a bone-dry budget plan. The practice of mixing politics and budget statements long preceded Clinton's presidency. But with the federal budget process in turmoil, this latest production is notably heavy on politics and light on fiscal revelations.