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February 16, 2012 By AMK

Budget requests, agency by agency

in spending by a wide margin will be absorbed by the Justice Department, where the president is proposing a 33.4 percent cut, from $26.9 billion to $17.9 billion. The next-largest cut goes to the Health and Human Services Department, which would see an 8.8 percent reduction in total discretionary authority.

View our chart below to see how the major agencies fared in Obama’s proposal. We looked at total discretionary authority for each agency.

Discretionary budget authority (billions of dollars)
Departments 2011
Actual
2013
Request
Percent
Change
Agriculture 23.2 23 -0.9%
Commerce 5.6 8 41.9%
Defense (DoD — Excluding Overseas
Contingency Operations)
528.3 525.4 -0.5%
Education 68.3 69.8 2.2%
Energy (Excluding National Nuclear
Security Administration)
15.2 15.6 2.8%
Health and Human Services 76.5 69.7 -8.8%
Homeland Security 41.9 39.5 -5.8%
Housing and Urban Development 37.1 35.3 -4.8%
Interior 11.7 11.4 -2.7%
Justice 26.9 17.9 -33.4%
Labor 12.5 12 -4%
State and Other International Programs
(Excluding Non-Security Funding)
48.8 54.8 12.3%
Transportation 13.7 13.8 0.6%
Treasury 13.5 12.6 -7%
Veterans Affairs 56.4 61 8.1%
 
Major Agencies
Corps of Engineers — Civil Works 4.9 4.7 -4.3%
Environmental Protection Agency 8.7 8.3 -3.90%
National Aeronautics and Space Administration 18.4 17.7 -4%
National Science Foundation 6.8 7.4 8.3%
Small Business Administration 0.7 0.9 30.2%
Social Security Administration 10.7 11.0 2.8%
Corporation for National and Community Service 1.1 1.1 -1%

— by Andrew Lapin and Caitlin Fairchild, Government Executive, February 13, 2012 at http://www.govexec.com/management/2012/02/discretionary-budget-authority-billions-dollars/41189/.

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