perfidy

I see in this WaPo column that only $9M are being budgeted to the program this year, and about $20M next year. Though the article refers to this as "serious" cash, that's dead wrong--$9M is chicken change. Many members of Congress are against the program, and it looks like they want it to dangle quietly for a while and die.

Of course, the real question that paranoid types might ask is how many un-allocated funds will end up going to TIA, and whether the slim public budget is only a cunning ruse.