No Furloughs?

Maybe there won't be furloughs, after all. Republicans are expected to unveil details of their $32 billion dollar spending cut package this week. Republican Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma tells our sister station WTOP Radio that Congress can create a smaller bureaucracy without having to fire a lot of people. He says through attrition, simply by not hiring any more feds, the government can save another two or three billion dollars. Critics, mostly Democrats, say cutting back the federal workforce would mean weaker health and safety inspections and reductions in homeland security.