As I’m sure you all know, the admisntration released its proposed FY 2019 budget https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/ yesterday. I can’t emphasize enough how pointless this document is. Overall it calls for spending $57 billion less in FY  2019 than what’s in the two-year budget deal passed just last week by Congress. Mick Mulvaney, Trump’s OMB director, suggested that Congress doesn’t have to spend to the cap, but after going to all the trouble to cut this deal, obviously that is a bit silly. They are going to spend to the level they just agreed to.

It’s an interesting document only in that it reflects the President’s priorities, but it won't even serve as a starting point for Congress.

Bottom line: Trump's proposal cuts Adult Education State Grants by $92.2 million below the 2018 annualized CR level, or 96.2 billion if you use FY 2017 as the baseline. (You have to use one these as baselines because we don’t have final numbers on FY 2018 appropriations yet.) They would level fund national leadership funding at $13.7 million.

They used the same boilerplate rationale as last year for the state grants cut:

"The request reflects the tough decisions needed to achieve the President’s goal of increasing support for national security and public safety without adding to the Federal budget deficit. States and providers across the country are still working to implement changes in adult education requirements made as a result of the enactment of WIOA in July 2014; future decisions regarding the program will be informed by the statutorily required program evaluation and performance data based on the full implementation of WIOA.”

Education overall: Once again, adult ed is not singled out for a cut — the President’s proposal cuts provides just $59.9 billion for education appropriations for FY 2019, a total that it characterizes as a cut of $7.1 billion. It eliminates funding for 29 programs, and consolidates 13 other programs.

Jeff

        Just noticing a couple of typos in the message below that I hurriedly typed this morning. The only substantive one: first sentence in the last paragraph should say “provides,” not “cuts provides.” The proposed cut is $7.1 billion.Sorry for any confusion.Jeff ---- On Tue, 13 Feb 2018 09:30:28 -0500  Me<jcarter@literacypolicy.org> wrote ----As I’m sure you all know, the admisntration released its proposed FY 2019 budget yesterday. I can’t emphasize enough how pointless this document is. Overall it calls for spending $57 billion less in FY  2019 than what’s in the two-year budget deal passed just last week by Congress. Mick Mulvaney, Trump’s OMB director, suggested that Congress doesn’t have to spend to the cap, but after going to all the trouble to cut this deal, obviously that is a bit silly. They are going to spend to the level they just agreed to.It’s an interesting document only in that it reflects the President’s priorities, but it won't even serve as a starting point for Congress. Bottom line: Trump's proposal cuts Adult Education State Grants by $92.2 million below the 2018 annualized CR level, or 96.2 billion if you use FY 2017 as the baseline. (You have to use one these as baselines because we don’t have final numbers on FY 2018 appropriations yet.) They would level fund national leadership funding at $13.7 million.They used the same boilerplate rationale as last year for the state grants cut: "The request reflects the tough decisions needed to achieve the President’s goal of increasing support for national security and public safety without adding to the Federal budget deficit. States and providers across the country are still working to implement changes in adult education requirements made as a result of the enactment of WIOA in July 2014; future decisions regarding the program will be informed by the statutorily required program evaluation and performance data based on the full implementation of WIOA.”Education overall: Once again, adult ed is not singled out for a cut — the President’s proposal cuts provides just $59.9 billion for education appropriations for FY 2019, a total that it characterizes as a cut of $7.1 billion. It eliminates funding for 29 programs, and consolidates 13 other programs.Jeff _______________________________________________ National Coalition for Literacy Members mailing list Members@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org To unsubscribe: http://lists.national-coalition-literacy.org/mailman/listinfo/members_lists.national-coalition-literacy.org