Budgeting with Band-Aids

BUDGETING - CR CUT COMPARISON $3 TRILLION $ 10 BILLION in CR cuts WITH BAND-AIDS in total spending (and how they were dispursed) 53% I Earmarks 22% I Commerce & Labor To put it lightly, Congress has taken an interesting approach to budgeting this year. Rather than allotting $ cut in CR, 7% I Transportation Dept. of Education 5% I 4Y Health fr Human Services 7Y Environment & Parks an amount for the full fiscal year through an annual budget, they've funded the government weeks or 3% I months at a time through temporary continuing resolutions (CR). As a partial government shutdown 2% I Dept. of Agriculture 2% I SSA 1% I Hon Homeland Security looms after the current CR expires on April 8th, we map out Congress' band-aid budgeting this year. 1% I Other .5%I Corp. for Public Broadcasting $ amount cut from baseline 4 BILLION #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 end of FY 2011 OUCH! 6 BILLION SEPT 30 64 DAYS I 73 DAYS #6 14 DAYS 21 DAYS 15 DAYS kiss it and make it better. [ pass a responsible spending bill ] OCT 1- DEC 3 DEC 4-18 DEC 19-21 DEC 22 - MAR 4 MAR 5 - MAR 18 MAR 19 - APR 8 FY 2011 CONTINUING RESOLUTIONS ... %24