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George Bowles
The automatic meat-axe procedures established by the GrammRudman-Hollings amendment to the so-called Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 will generate across-the-board cuts in the federal budget for fiscal 1986. They are expected to reduce the amount of funds available to the states and localities by a staggering $1.2 billion, and that’s just the beginning. The cuts will deepen to even more draconian proportions as Gramm-Rudman, if left unchanged, propels the economy toward the .^.oped for balanced federal budget by 1990.
Next year Virginia, according to the state’s Department of Finance could lose between $130 million and $400 million, depending on how the haggling between President Reagan and the Congress works out. Using the lower figure, Gramm-Rudman could hack $13 million out of the highway aid the state had expected in 1987, with the loss coming just when the governor was planning a major push to upgrade the state’s transportation system.
Beyond that, however, social service programs such as day care and services for the elderly would lose about $13.4 million through 1987. Other programs which would suffer losses would be low-income energy assistance, $8.6 million; educational aid for the disadvantaged, $3.5 million; maternal and child health care, $3.4 million, and urban mass transit, $1.4 million.
Del. Dorothy S. McDiarmid (DFairfax), chairman of the House Ap
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