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Defense spending will soon be flattening out, and domestic discretionary spending proved highly resilient at the end of the last Congress, as members facing re-election became much more conservative.
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.
Although the cut is billed as across-the-board, it affects only "discretionary" spending, which is less than half of the estimated $1.
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.