Stockman Calls Budget Foes ‘Delinquents’
<i> United Press International</i>
WASHINGTON —
Former Budget Director David A. Stockman said Friday that the federal budget deficit reduction package was voted down by “windbags and juvenile delinquents.”
Stockman, calling the 254-179 vote Friday an “appalling tragedy,” said the deal reached at the budget summit talks was “a masterpiece of political compromise.”
The former congressman served as President Ronald Reagan’s director of the Office of Management and Budget from 1981 to 1985.
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