So what we've done is we've taken a scalpel to the discretionary budget rather than a machete.
WHITEHOUSE: Presidential Press Conference on the 2012 Budget
With the discretionary budget freeze, the president has made the focus on cost control and efficiency very clear.
The fact of the matter is that you are talking about a 13 percent cut in our defense budget and 9 percent cut in our nondefense discretionary budget this year.
And so what we've done is we've been very specific in terms of how to stabilize the discretionary budget, how to make sure that we're not adding additional debt by 2015.
WHITEHOUSE: Presidential Press Conference on the 2012 Budget
And I worked with Democrats and Republicans to cut a trillion dollars out of our discretionary domestic budget.
The Budget proposes discretionary spending caps as well as restraints on new mandatory spending.
The notion that defense, the biggest component of discretionary outlays in the budget, can be left untouched by this process is naive.
This is hardly good news, particularly since the discretionary portion of the budget contains entire departments, such as Housing and Urban Development, that should be immediately abolished.
What he has been willing to do is make clear that if we take a balanced approach, we can enact spending cuts in our discretionary non-defense budget that are serious, but allow us to continue to invest in key areas of the economy like education and research, and development and innovation, and clean energy technology.
Tax revenues are down, non-discretionary spending is up and budget deficits are back with a vengeance.
For future years, the budget includes the discretionary resources contemplated as a part of the plan for Social Security reform.
With rising anxiety about mounting federal deficits, President Obama declared a freeze on all non-defense discretionary spending in his latest budget proposal.
FORBES: Penny Wise And Pound Foolish: Why Obama's Symbolic Spending Freeze May Grow The Deficit
Similar to last year, the Budget again holds overall discretionary spending growth below the rate of inflation.
But even that previous administration last year proposed bigger budget cuts than this from discretionary spending.
There have been some suggestions up on the Hill as recently as this morning that while the talks on the budget have centered mostly on discretionary items so far, some of them -- some people have wanted to move to taxes.
Maybe she is worried about her budget and wants to stretch her discretionary dollars as far as possible.
FORBES: Expect More Retail Promotions In 2013, Thanks To The Internet
This is -- our budget will bring non-defense discretionary spending to the lowest level as a share of our GDP since we began keeping records in 1962.
And that big possible deal includes significant reductions in discretionary spending, significant reductions in our defense budget, significant savings out of the entitlement programs, and significant savings out of our tax code.
And in order -- if you just wanted to cut the deficit to balance the budget, only on non-discretionary -- or on discretionary non-defense spending -- so if you wanted to exempt out all the entitlements, exempt defense, you'd have to cut all those other things by 60 percent -- 60 percent.
WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Holds a Town Hall in New Hampshire
And they understand this, that this budget proposal will reduce non-security discretionary spending to its lowest level since Dwight Eisenhower was President.
The Budget proposes to keep non-security discretionary spending growth below 1 percent for 2009 and then hold it at that level for the next 4 years.
And he helped draft a budget for next year that freezes all discretionary government spending outside of national security for three years -- something that was never enacted in the prior administration.
Non-security discretionary spending is less than a sixth of the total budget.
It was a budget that actually froze immediately non-defense discretionary spending.
WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Takes Questions at GOP House Issues Conference | The White House
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.
WHITEHOUSE: White House Press Briefing: President Obama on Budget Negotiations | The White House
Any short-run budget strategy that does not focus exclusively on discretionary spending including the military-security-industrial complex is not serious, not properly aligned, and scaled to the parameters of the current political struggle.
They only divert attention away from what realistically can be achieved before the next presidential election, namely substantial short-run spending reductions to federal discretionary programs and procedural changes to make long-run budget discipline possible when the time is ripe after the 2012 presidential election.
FORBES: In Passing The Most Recent Budget, Congress And The President Lied
The CBO budget baseline assumes the impossible: No increases in discretionary spending for a decade.
FORBES: If Republicans Bend on the Sequester, They Don't Deserve Our Support
应用推荐