OMB: Agencies should plan for budget cuts in 2017

Federal Times: Federal agencies should plan on cutting their budgets 5 percent in 2017, according to new budget guidance from the Office of Management and Budget.

OMB said civilian and defense agencies should prepare 2017 budget proposals that cut 5 percent of their discretionary budgets from the fiscal 2017 levels laid out in President Obama's 2016 budget proposal, while making room for administration priorities.

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