likely we ll see an ultimate full fix of the sequester. what this has done is really encourages special interests and different groups to say, hey, if you lobby enough and you cause enough stink, you can certainly get your portion of the cuts undone. so i think what we ll see is a huge effort by i lobbying and special interest groups to go to congress and go to the white house and try to get their cuts undone and i think we may not see that, though, for programs that hit low income people, things like housing assistance, things like the head start, and people that don t necessarily have the same advocates or lobbying dollars as bigger industries. i think those people will still feel the cuts. nancy cook and josh, so nice to see both of you. thanks this morning. thanks. a tremendous show of support for victims of the boston marathon bombing through crowd funding online. more than $25 million from all over the world was raised in one week. what you need to know about those sites ne
throw in a little bit of bad weather early in the week in new york and the effects were very, very clear to everybody. josh, i know it was a pain. it was a real pain in the neck. was the flying public ever at risk? from a safety perspective, no, and of course the faa managed air space capacity in order to maintain the same level of safety. it was never a question of risk to the traveling public. it is just that given the safety standards that have to be maintained, when you take controllers out of the picture, and you have to make do on a lower staffing level, there is going to be fewer flights that can be handled and that s what we saw with the delays. nancy, these delays are basically the most visible, the most widespread of the forced budget cuts up to now and washington approving a temporary solution for the furloughs and does that make it less likely we ll see a complete fix for the sequester or do we have a congress that s going to lurch from crisis to crisis and when peopl
$253 million. that s one half of 1%. one half of 1% of the sequester. hopefully any delays you experience now can just be blamed on the usual misery of flying. nancy cook is an economic and fiscal policy correspondent for the national journal and josh marks, the executive director of the aviation institute. nancy, i want to start with you. one month into the forced budget cuts polls show around half of americans still don t know whether the cuts were good or bad for the country. was this week s flying frustration enough to change that? well, i think that we re just starting to see the cuts. i certainly think that the polling hasn t necessarily kept pace with the way that we have seen the cuts. i certainly think that tons of passengers and people that were going through airports were really frustrated by the sequester cuts and we re starting to see other things like furloughs of employees at the white house budget office, the irs, and so the more and