the OMB’s September 2012 report says that under sequestration the National Drug Intelligence Center would lose $2 million of its $20 million budget. While that’s slightly more than 8.2 percent (rounding error or scare tactic?), the bigger problem is that the National Drug Intelligence Center shuttered its doors on June 15, 2012–three months before the OMB issued its report to Congress.
Progressives think that the problem with government is partisanship and gridlock. Or that politicians are too busy. In fact, the problem is an institution that has taken on so many functions that it is necessarily unwieldy and dysfunctional.