The R chair of the committee says: "Non-defense programs will be cut effectively by 6%, and those cuts are not evenly distributed." The 6% is misleading - it's relative to the FRA. Compared to FY24 enacted, it's about an 11% cut. It's right they're not evenly distributed. /2

One driver of these cuts is the FRA - the deal announced last summer in response to the default threat. Republicans proposal is to cut massively *beyond* the FRA caps. Here's Rose DeLauro's statement on that: democrats-appropriat...