How to Spend $872 Billion
by Craig Jennings, 5/25/2006
CongressDailyAM (subscription only) brings us a breakdown of the discretionary spending in the House's FY07 budget:
(in billions)
Agriculture
$17.81
Defense
377.36
Energy and Water Development
30.02
Foreign Operations
21.30
Homeland Security
32.08
Interior
25.89
Labor-HHS
141.93
Legislative
4.03
Military Quality of Life-VA
94.71
Science-State-Justice-Commerce
59.84
Transportation-Treasury-HUD
67.82
Total discretionary
$872.78
So far, two of these appropriations have been passed by the House: Agriculture, at $93.6 billion, was passed on Tuesday (378-46) and Energy-Water passed (404-20) last night to the tune of $30 billion.
