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Center on Budget and Policy Priorities:
Cuts Start in 2008 and Grow Deeper Over Time.
Under the Administration's budget, domestic discretionary programs --- the programs that are funded each year through the annual appropriations process, other than defense and international programs --- are slated for sizable reductions over the next five years.
The largest cuts would come in 2012, when domestic programs would be cut $34 billion, or 7.6 percent, relative to the 2007 funding level, adjusted for inflation.
Data from back-up information provided by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to the Congressional Budget Committees (but not made readily available to the public) show that key domestic priority areas --- including areas such as education, environmental protection, veterans health care, and medical research --- would be slated for large funding cuts over the 2008 to 2012 period.
Elementary, Secondary, and Vocational Education: This subfunction includes funding for K-12 education, vocational and adult education, and special education.
In fiscal year 2008, funding for the three programs would total $415 million, $660 million below the expected fiscal year 2007 funding level for the programs that would be consolidated even before adjusting for inflation.
Discretionary funding for all programs outside of the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security is currently provided by a temporary continuing resolution, which is scheduled to expire on February 15.
In actuality, the overall level of funding that the administration is proposing for domestic discretionary programs in 2008 is $1.5 billion below the level for 2007 reflected in H.J. Res.
Posted on February 8, 2007 07:37 PM
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