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The 2008 United States Federal Budget began as a proposal by President George W. Bush to fund government operations for October 1, 2007 – September 30, 2008. The requested budget was submitted to the 110th Congress on February 5, 2007. [1] The government was initially funded through a series of four temporary continuing resolutions.
Each year, the President of the United States submits a budget request to Congress for the following fiscal year as required by the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921. Current law ( 31 U.S.C. § 1105 (a)) requires the president to submit a budget no earlier than the first Monday in January, and no later than the first Monday in February.
As of the fiscal year 2019 budget approved by Congress, national defense is the largest discretionary expenditure in the federal budget. [14] Figure C provides a historical picture of military spending over the last few decades. In 1970, the United States government spent just over $80 billion on national defense.
FY 2013 Estimated Federal Spending per 2012 Budget Federal funding of science and technology research by year. The spike in 2009 is due to the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act. [57] Discretionary spending is spending that is not mandated on a multi-year basis by existing legislation, and thus must be determined anew in each year's budget.
As a percentage of GDP, the annual deficit has nearly doubled in just 10 years, from 2.8% in 2014 to a projected 5.3% in 2024. So there's just a lot more borrowing to pay interest on.
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The first package of full-year spending bills, which funded the departments of Veterans Affairs, Agriculture and the Interior, among others, cleared Congress two weeks ago with just hours to spare before funding expired for those agencies. When combining the two packages, discretionary spending for the budget year will come to about $1.66 trillion.
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