Congress recently approved a budget resolution, and now it is up to Senate and House appropriators to write spending bills funding discretionary programs (both defense and domestic). At the same time, other authorizing committees will be working to "find savings" from mandatory programs, as this budget resolution contains reconciliation instructions requiring severe reductions in mandatory spending. The Coalition on Human Needs has put together a good two-page memo outlining what is in the budget resolution and how it will affect specific mandatory programs. Also see a recent Watcher article for for more information on the budget resolution.