Feds Offer 38,484 Budget Cuts

Federal employees conceived 38,484 ways to cut the federal budget during a month-long contest that ended last week, Office of Management and Budget officials said on Monday.

The Obama administration in November will award the worker with the best idea a meeting with the president and inclusion of the line item in his fiscal 2011 budget request. The brainstorming began in September on SAVEAward.gov, a secured Web site overseen by OMB that protected contestants' from their bosses' judgments. SAVE stands for Securing Americans Value and Efficiency. Employees were encouraged to submit more than one proposal.