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Budget requests, agency-by-agency
Check out our chart to see which agencies are up and which are down in the president’s fiscal 2012 proposal.
President Obama's fiscal 2012 budget calls for cuts in discretionary spending at eight of the major non-security agencies. The Commerce and Justice departments face the steepest cuts: Justice would lose $6.7 billion in discretionary budget authority under Obama's proposal, a 24.3 percent decrease from fiscal 2010, while Commerce's budget would decrease by $5.1 billion -- a whopping 36.7 percent decline from its overall fiscal 2010 budget.
Agencies that would see budget boosts under the president's proposal include the Education, Homeland Security and Veterans Affairs departments.
Click here to view the fiscal 2012 budget documents.
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Discretionary budget authority (billions of dollars)
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| Departments |
2010 Actual |
2012 Request |
Percent Change |
| Agriculture | 25.1 | 22.0 | -12.4% |
| Commerce | 13.9 | 8.8 | -36.7% |
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Defense (DoD -- Excluding Overseas Contingency Operations) |
530.1 | 553.0 | 4.3% |
| Education | 64.3 | 77.4 | 20.4% |
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Energy (Excluding National Nuclear Security Administration) |
16.6 | 17.8 | 7.2% |
| Health and Human Services | 84.4 | 82.2 | -2.6% |
| Homeland Security | 39.8 | 43.2 | 8.5% |
| Housing and Urban Development | 42.8 | 41.7 | -2.6% |
| Interior | 12.1 | 12.1 | 0.0% |
| Justice | 27.6 | 20.9 | -24.3% |
| Labor | 13.5 | 12.8 | -5.2% |
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State and Other International Programs (Excluding Non-Security Funding |
49.8 | 52.7 | 5.8% |
| Transportation | 14.7 | 13.4 | -8.8% |
| Treasury | 13.4 | 14.0 | 4.5% |
| Veterans Affairs | 53.1 | 58.8 | 10.7% |
| Major Agencies | |||
| Corps of Engineers |
5.5 |
4.6 | -16.4% |
| Environmental Protection Agency | 10.3 | 9.0 | -12.6% |
| National Aeronautics and Space Administration | 18.7 | 18.7 | 0.0% |
| National Science Foundation | 6.9 | 7.8 | 13.0% |
| Small Business Administration | 0.8 | 1.0 | 25.0% |
| Social Security Administration | 9.3 | 10.2 | 9.7% |
| Corporation for National and Community Service | 1.2 | 1.3 | 8.3% |