CBPP has a very good piece on the new budget resolution's appropriations cap (emph. mine). The Congressional budget plan assumes that funding for non-defense appropriations for 2008 will be increased by $13.5 billion, or 3.1 percent, above the CBO baseline level, which equals the 2007 funding level, adjusted only for inflation. (See Table 1.) President Bush's budget, in contrast, calls for non-defense funding to be cut $9.7 billion, or 2.2 percent below the CBO baseline. A 3.1 percent funding increase is not especially large, and with this increase, 2008 funding for non-defense appropriations would remain modest by recent historical standards. When inflation and population growth are taken into account, funding for non-defense appropriations in 2008 under the new budget plan would be below the levels of funding provided in 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005. The 2008 funding level would be more than 6 percent below the level reached in 2004, after adjusting for inflation and population growth.[2] (See Figure 1 on page 3.) This is what the President is all worked up about? Please.