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003 WHERE THE DISCRETIONARY DOLLARS GO


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Discretionary spending (Non-Dpt of Def)
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This chart includes the 2010 estimated discretionary (non-DOD) spending from the 2011 Federal Budget submitted by the President.[1]
Discretionary spending is used to fund the Cabinet Departments (e.g., the Department of Education) and Agencies (e.g., the Environmental Protection Agency). Discretionary budget authority is established annually by Congress, as opposed to mandatory spending that is required by laws that span multiple years, such as Social Security or Medicare.
The Federal government spent approximately $660 billion during 2010 on the Cabinet Departments and Agencies, representing 19% of budgeted expenditures or about 4.5% of GDP. The 2011 budget included estimated spending for 2010.
Funding for the Department of Defense is discretionary, but is excluded from this total and analyzed separately in this article. However, certain defense-related spending is included in other Departments, such as Homeland Security and Veteran's Affairs. The U.S. Constitution (Article I, Section 8) grants the Congress the authority to "To raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years."[2]
Several politicians and think tanks have proposed freezing non-defense discretionary spending at particular levels and holding this spending constant for various periods of time. President Obama proposed freezing discretionary spending representing approximately 12% of the budget in his 2011 State of the Union address.[3]

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  1. ^ 2011 Federal Budget-Table 5-4-2010 Estimated Amounts
  2. ^ The Constitution of the United States
  3. ^ State of the Union Speech-January 2011

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