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balanced budget in this way,”
McGhee said. “The economy now is
growing, but relatively slowly, so the
idea of doing this with discretionary
spending is ... going to be hard.”
He said the administration is using
discretionary spending cuts on pro
grams they don’t like as a political
tool, which he said is a “tried and
true” tactic used by both parties.
McGhee said there are some fiscal
conservatives in the Senate who may
have problems with the budget.
“Up to this point, most Republi
cans have been willing to go along
with what the administration wants
to do, and they’ve either just gone
along or caused enough trouble that
no budget resolution has been
passed,” he said.
Military spending has increased
by more than a third since Bush
took office, the largest increase
since the Reagan era, according to
the proposal.
That trend would continue next
year, with the proposal calling for a
4.8 percent increase in overall de
fense spending in addition to the
supplemental funds.
The Department of Homeland Se
curity would get a 7 percent increase
to about $34.2 billion. The funds
would increase Border and Trans
portation spending to $16 million, in
cluding money for 210 new border
patrol agents. It would also create a
nuclear detection office to monitor il
legal trafficking and assembly of nu
clear devices. Much of the increase
will come from fees, including a pro
posed $3 increase in airline passen
ger fees in 2006.
Defense will likewise receive
4.8 percent more funds, increasing
its discretionary budget to
$419.3 billion. The growth would in
crease military pay by 3.1 percent
and bolster special forces by 1,400.
The budget calls for the Navy to re
tire one aircraft carrier and for the
Air Force to slow production of its
F/A-22 stealth fighter jets.
In the last budget produced by the
Clinton administration, non-defense
discretionary spending grew by
15 percent. Such spending has de
clined over the past four years, with
the proposal calling for spending to
rise by about 2.1 percent.
The budget also proposed about
150 reductions in non-defense pro
grams, saving about $20 billion in
2006, according to the proposal.
Those cuts would save about
$137 billion over the next 10 years.
A variety of domestic agencies’
budgets would be squeezed under
the proposal’s attempts to cut
spending hikes, including a 9.6 per
cent cut in discretionary spending
for the Department of Agriculture to
$19.4 billion. The proposal would
retrench farm price supports by
$587 million and reduce loan avail
ability. It would also increase food
stamp spending.
Cuts to education would reduce its
discretionary funds 1 percent, to
I ...
-1 2006 FEDERAL BUDGET |
Agency expenditures under Bush’s plan
Change
from
2005
What each agency would spend next year under President
Bush’s budget proposal, compared with this year:
9.9%
4.4
9.5
-4.0
-0.3
0.3
-9.4
5.4
4.1
3.4
2.4
Health and Human Services
Social Securi
Agriculture
Veterans Affairs
Education
Office of Personnel Management
Transportation
Labor
Defense/Civil Programs
$643.9 billion
441.2
426.3
94.6
68.3
64.3
64.3
60.6
51.7
44.5
-5.7 |Hi Housing and Urban Development 40.2
0.1 ;J$| Homeland Security 33.3
10.4 i|| Justice 23.4
14.9 :fi Other independent agencies 22.6
-0.9 Energy 22.0
15.4 |f§ International assistance programs 17.0
0.2 IS NASA 15.7
18.2 ji State 14.1
4.0 i§ Interior 9.8
4.3 if ERA 8.2
3.5 i| Commerce 6.5
7.0 | Judiciary 6.1
0.4 | National Science Foundation 5.7
6.7 | Legislative Branch 4.4
* 2006 figure for defense doesn't include spending for Iraq and Afghanistan
NOTE: All figures are estimates: includes entitlement programs such as Social Security,
Medicare and spending from highway trust funds; does not include allowances,
undistributed offsetting receipts or Small Business Administration
Spending as a percentage of GDP, 1930-2010
45 ^ 43.6 1943-44
SOURCE: Office of Management and Budget
AP
$56 billion, ending 48 programs. The
budget would increase Pell Grants.
Oregon’s Democratic representa
tives blasted the budget proposal.
Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., called
Bush’s attempt to cut the deficit a
“mirage,” saying the budget doesn’t
include promised items.
“The president has created the il
lusion of shrinking budget deficits
by slashing critical domestic pro
grams in education, economic devel
opment, job creation and veterans
health care,” he said in a Feb. 7
press release. “The deficit reduction
is a mirage. ... And public debt will
increase each year to record levels
under this budget.”
DeFazio said Bush has left tax cuts
for the wealthiest untouched and has
left the No Child Left Behind Act and
veterans undefended.
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said in a
Feb. 7 press release that he opposed
power rate hikes he said would be
caused by the budget.
“The Administration is proposing
a $2.5 billion hit to the Northwest
economy through (Bonneville Pow
er Administration) rate increases,
while at the same time taking away
the BPA’s ability to improve the relia
bility of its transmission grid,”
Wyden said in the press release.
“Low-cost power is the lifeblood of
our economy in the Northwest, and
this proposal is economic poison for
our region. ”
A statement from Sen. Gordon
Smith, R-Ore., could not be obtained
before press time.
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