Monday, March 10, 2014

From the Dish: Obama’s Election-Year Budget

2305 M2 students ought to click here to get background for the written assignment.

- Click here for the link.

Andrew Sullivan links to a variety of opinions about the recently submitted 2015 budget. Consider adopting one of these into your paper topic. I'll have separate posts associated with them later. Overall the budget has been considered to be a "political budget" - which some argue all budgets really are, what matters for spending is the appropriations process - because House Republicans are unlikely to work with him on compromises in an election year. They didn't last year.

Sullivan includes the graphic which helps us comprehend the size of the different spending items in the document.

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