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Also, these simulations reflect discretionary spending growing with inflation after 2001; in our earlier reports, discretionary spending was assumed to comply with statutory caps in effect through 2002.
This should include discretionary funds for expenditures by military units that often encounter opportunities to help the local population.
Just one small detail that might have given Dole and his illustrious advisers a moment's pause: The appropriations measures, while restrained by recent standards, nonetheless weigh in at probably $16 billion over the target the GOP Congress set for domestic discretionary spending only a year ago.
As discretionary programs are trimmed back to pay for mounting entitlement costs, the possibility of Clinton or any other president deploying new programs to address national problems will become more and more remote.
That is, as Reischauer quickly adds, "if budget balance is your prime desire and you believe that cuts in discretionary spending are the way to go."