Israel Foreign Aid

The Reagan Administration, faced with the need to trim $11.7 billion from this year's budget, is contemplating cuts that include laying off some federal employees one or two days a week, leaving thousands of jobs vacant and scaling back crucial law enforcement programs. To comply with the Gramm-Rudman budget-balancing measure enacted by Congress last month, most domestic programs will have to be cut uniformly by 4.3% as of March 1, the White House announced Monday.