CBO Analysis of Budget for FY 2007

Preliminary Analysis of the President’s Budget Request for 2007, March 3, 2006
From the Democratic staff of the Senate Budget Committee:

  • Review of Newspaper Editorials Opposing Bush Budget – Mar. 2, 2006
  • Charts Used at Hearing on Bush FY 2007 Defense Budget – Mar. 2, 2006
  • The Grand Old Spending Party: How Republicans Became Big Spenders,
    by Stephen Slivinski, director of budget studies at the Cato Institute: “President Bush has presided over the largest overall increase in inflation-adjusted federal spending since Lyndon B. Johnson. Even after excluding spending on defense and homeland security, Bush is still the biggest-spending president in 30 years. His 2006 budget doesn’t cut enough spending to change his place in history, either.”
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