February 9, 2006

THE HIDDEN CUTS IN DOMESTIC APPROPRIATIONS:
OMB Data Reveal Deep Funding Cuts After 2007
by Richard Kogan, Isaac Shapiro, and Katharine Richards

SPREADSHEET

The attached spreadsheet shows funding levels for the “domestic discretionary” portion of the budget — the one-sixth of the budget that is funded by appropriations enacted by Congress each year, other than for defense and international affairs.

The spreadsheet was created by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities from publicly available material issued by the Office of Management and Budget. It contains six pages showing funding levels in the President’s budget by category (“function”) and subcategory (“subfunction”). These figures cover each fiscal year from 2007 through 2011, and are in millions of dollars.

Page 5 of the spreadsheet shows the dollar cuts or increases that the President proposes in each category or subcategory, relative to OMB’s own projection of 2006 funding adjusted for inflation — its own baseline. Page 6 shows the same cuts or increases in percentage terms. This spreadsheet is described in greater detail in the appendix of the CBPP report on the President’s cuts in domestic discretionary programs.