Budget Impasse Continues With New Threat of Cuts
By Charles Dervarics
The four-month stalemate on a 2003 federal education budget could leave many higher education programs at risk of across-the-board budget cuts.
Many programs would face an immediate 2.9 percent across-the-board spending cut if a plan from Senate Republican leaders becomes law. That’s because of outside fiscal pressures as well as a goal to give states more flexibility in how to spend federal dollars.
