After years of working around austerity, agencies run out of slack. "[W]hile the most dire predictions may not have materialized in 2013, the tricks that many agencies employed -- deferring maintenance, using unspent money from earlier years, cutting staff by attrition -- are likely to be exhausted by 2014, when federal departments must trim an additional $24 billion from already tight budgets..."It was kind of like when you go through your drawers and your pants pockets and you collect the dimes -- you can't do that again," said Representative Frank R. Wolf, a Virginia Republican who helped the Justice Department scrape together its spare change. "The second year will be much more difficult."" Jonathan Weisman in The New York Times
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