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[edit]DescriptionDiscretionary Spending FY2013.svg | Discretionary spending (Non-Dpt of Def) |
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[edit]2013
[edit]The current version of this chart includes the fiscal year (FY) 2013 estimated discretionary spending (non-DOD, major Departments and Agencies only) from the 2013 budget submitted by the President.[1] Note that these are discretionary amounts; several of these Departments have very significant mandatory appropriations as well, such as Social Security, Health and Human Services (for Medicare and Medicaid).
2010
[edit]An older version accessible below includes the 2010 estimated discretionary spending (excluding DOD) from the 2011 Federal Budget submitted by the President.[2]
Discretionary spending is used to fund the Cabinet Departments (e.g., the Department of Education) and Agencies (e.g., the Environmental Protection Agency). Discretionary budget authority is established annually by Congress, as opposed to mandatory spending that is required by laws that span multiple years, such as Social Security or Medicare.
The Federal government spent approximately $660 billion during 2010 on the Cabinet Departments and Agencies, representing 19% of budgeted expenditures or about 4.5% of GDP. The 2011 budget included estimated spending for 2010.
Funding for the Department of Defense is discretionary, but is excluded from this total and analyzed separately in this article. However, certain defense-related spending is included in other Departments, such as Homeland Security and Veteran's Affairs. The U.S. Constitution (Article I, Section 8) grants the Congress the authority to "To raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years."[3]
Several politicians and think tanks have proposed freezing non-defense discretionary spending at particular levels and holding this spending constant for various periods of time. President Obama proposed freezing discretionary spending representing approximately 12% of the budget in his 2011 State of the Union address.[4]
References
[edit]- ↑ OMB-President's 2013 Budget. Archived from the original on 2014-03-24. Retrieved on 2015-07-27.
- ↑ 2011 Federal Budget-Table 5-4-2010 Estimated Amounts. Archived from the original on 2014-02-27. Retrieved on 2015-07-27.
- ↑ The Constitution of the United States
- ↑ State of the Union Speech-January 2011. Archived from the original on 2011-02-23. Retrieved on 2015-07-27.
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