Even in 1999, defense spending will drop 0.1% while domestic discretionary spending will rise 2.2 %.
The cuts would be split 50-50 between defense and domestic discretionary spending.
They would freeze all domestic discretionary spending for three years and cap future increases at the rate of inflation through the rest of the decade.
With most entitlements off limits and Mr Romney wanting to boost defence, that leaves domestic discretionary spending, such as research, education, roads and law enforcement.
These would be split 50-50 between defense and domestic discretionary spending.
The vast majority of the cuts that have been put forward, just as was true in the Republican budget, are direct cuts out of domestic discretionary spending.
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That includes some very tough choices in domestic discretionary spending.
In Mr. Obama's first two years, while private businesses and households were spending less and deleveraging, federal domestic discretionary spending soared by 84% with some agencies doubling and tripling their budgets.
But we know that this kind of spending, domestic discretionary spending, which has been the focus of complaints about out-of-control federal spending, makes up only about 12 percent of the entire budget.
Why go back to that old conventional way of just going after discretionary domestic spending?
Add that money to the tab, and total discretionary domestic spending is up closer to 30% from 2008-2013.
At first sight, the proposed spending curbs also look credible, at least compared with last year's plans, which crammed enormous cuts in discretionary domestic spending into the years after 2002.
In two weeks, I will send you a budget that funds the war, protects the homeland, and meets important domestic needs, while limiting the growth in discretionary spending to less than 4 percent.
While a growing economy will bring the annual deficit down to about 2.4 percent of Gross Domestic Product by 2015 (assuming, among other things, that discretionary spending remains capped in the way Congress and President Obama have agreed), the red ink will begin flowing faster again.
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But they have done so almost entirely by cutting the kind of spending that already is in decline, which is on military and domestic discretionary programs that Congress has to approve every year.
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