"Recognizing budget realities, current Defense policy states that outreach events can only be supported with local assets at no cost to the government, " said a statement Tuesday from the office of the Commander Naval Air Forces in San Diego.
Different organizations, ranging from the Bowles-Simpson Fiscal Commission to the House Budget Committee, have considered this currentpolicy baseline to be the appropriate reference point, since it measures changes relative to the status quo, rather than the mix of expiring provisions and policy changes that would likely never be implemented.
Two of the five scenarios involve a short-term fix extending the current tax and spending policy with a promise to fix the next budget and a large-scale long-term compromise.