the playing field while on the other side, prosecutors, because of an arcane rule, because of how the doj is funded, will have many more resources, totally unfair. i m glad you mentioned that. in the simplest of terms explain to us that rule, why that has come to be? sure. despite the sequester, prosecutors seem to not be suffering the same funding cuts. the sequester is an across the board cut. doj has about $27 billion from prosecutors to investigations, fbi is up in that. on the other side, public defenders come out of a court budget that s only $7 billion a year. when we talk about the sequester being equal, it is not, because those bigger programs have a lot more leeway. the staff of a public defender office as our reporting shows is about 90% of the budget. so what you re cut something just people. that s why chief justice john roberts, conservative republican apointee said you can t cut the courts the way you cut other parts of government because we re made of people and
what s interesting for people who care about it and for people who don t, people who want to cut government in a logical way, for those conservatives, that reporting pointed out as you know that the public defender system is already a very efficient budget that is mostly for staff. so unlike pentagon for cure or certain infrastructure plans, what you re doing with an across the board cut as sam stein and ryan reported is penalize a very part of the government that is running on low overhead and efficiently running, right? while bloated systems actually have the cushion. it s the opposite of what a jack welch style biscuit would do. does that aspect of it concern you on the penny plan, that they re not learning anything? well, the whole thing concerns me because it s a total breakdown of logic, adulthood and compassion. well said. we ve used a lot of sflesver
the 136 million dollars. the three have been shut down. what about the balance, we ve shut down as well? it s a pros cess not starting until the 7th. there formula how they shut them down, pull it out of the hat? are these the three we definitely don t need towers at? the f.a.a. drew a line in the sand and 54 flights per year and control towers are manned by contractors and not federal employees and looked at state commerce, traffic, air traffic, passenger lists and tried to make the best decisions they could. that ings they don t need at the f.a.a. across the board cut, that s it? they re doing some is your lows and some might have to not have the midnight shift. greta: we used to do
look i m a democrat. i don t think the sequester ace good idea. it could cause pain. seven rubio was right. but there is a larger point. everybody needs to tighten their belt and i d feel more comfortable with the white house announced a two, three, 5% across the board cut in staff salaries as a sign of showing solidarity with the hard-hit american people. martha: we do, mary catherine hear so much about this from this president. he says look if you re making a little more you should give a little bit more as well. wouldn t it be a good symbolic move to insist that the same thing happen in his own company so to speak, if his own business at home? yeah, as much as i hate to agree vehemently with doug it s not worst thing in the world. i will take chicken scratch on my letters from the white house too of which i get plenty. martha: invitation -gs are pouring in every day. to safe a hundred thousand buck -gs or so. it s not necessarily the salary number of the white house staff
million dollar to the program do you think you can get around that to avoid cutting vaccines to children, but under a sequester, that the that the president blames on republicans, you don t know if you can do that? we re going to do everything we can to limit any damage that occurs because of the across the board cut, but affects our is it your testimony under the president s proposed cut of 58 million dollars budget to the program, you could have avoided cuts to vaccines to children in maryland? we believe that we could have maintained vaccination levels, yes. very interesting. sean: check mate. still with us, former speaker of the house, former presidential candidate newt gingri gingrich. just embarrassed, busted about firing janitors, about immunizations for kids and education department, firing teachers and pink slips being sent out. and the president just lied repeatedly demagogued this whole thing and then it s back