The 2005 Budget submitted by the president last week only contained partial information for spending over the next 5 years. The spending proposals for specific programs are contained in a 1,000+ page Office of Management and Budget (OMB) computer run that was provided to some members of Congress, but was not included in the budget documents originally made available to the public.

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has obtained these data and shared them with OMB Watch to post on our website.

The 2005 Budget submitted by the president last week only contained partial information for spending over the next 5 years. The spending proposals for specific programs are contained in a 1,000+ page Office of Management and Budget (OMB) computer run that was provided to some members of Congress, but was not included in the budget documents originally made available to the public.

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has obtained these data and shared them with OMB Watch to post on our website.

The 2005 Budget submitted by the president last week only contained partial information for spending over the next 5 years. The spending proposals for specific programs are contained in a 1,000+ page Office of Management and Budget (OMB) computer run that was provided to some members of Congress, but was not included in the budget documents originally made available to the public.

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has obtained these data and shared them with OMB Watch to post on our website.

The first part of the document contains summaries by "category." The rest of the document goes through the budget, by account, showing FY 2003 spending levels and 2004 through 2009 proposed policy. For each account, the run shows both the OMB current services baseline and the President's policy amount.

OMB Account-level Data on Government Spending:

• Major Category Summary Report, Policy and Baseline, 26.5kb (.pdf)
• Comparison of Policy and Baseline Category (Sub)/Function/Subfunction/Account Detail Report, 1.56MB (.pdf)
• Full Report, 1.75MB (.pdf)

Glossary:

• Baseline – refers to the OMB current services level of spending. The baseline generally assumes that receipts and direct spending programs continue in the future as specified by current law, or, in the case of discretionary spending, that spending increases at the rate of inflation.
• Policy – the spending amount consistent with the President's 2005 budget proposals.
• BA – Budget Authority
• OL – Outlays

References:

• Administration's Budget Would Cut Heavily Into Many Areas Of Domestic Discretionary Spending After 2005 - CBPP
• Budget Envisions Long-Term Cuts: OMB Predicts Reduced, Frozen Spending for Popular Programs – Washington Post, Feb. 5, 2004 .
• President's Budget Contains Larger Cuts In Domestic Discretionary Programs than Has Been Reported – Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Feb. 5, 2004.