The FY 06 budget proposal submitted yesterday by the President includes severe cuts for all non-defense discretionary spending. Under the President's plan, discretionary spending in areas other than defense and homeland security would fall by nearly 1 percent. Click here to see a Washington Post breakdown of how the President's $2.57 trillion budget proposal affects each individual agency. Click here and here for information on how the President's budget proposal would directly affect the budgets of states. Click here, here, here, here, and here for good budget analyses by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. For a good synopsis on how this budget proposal is protecting the rich while leaving everyone else out, read this article by Robert Borosage. Also, be sure to check out the latest edition of the Watcher for articles from OMB Watch on the budget.