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In addition, IT funds may be contained within the appropriations for a specific program or an overall administrative budget, making them less visible and, if part of discretionary spending, more subject to volatile changes in the federal budget.
It will provide an essential perspective on the Government's commitment to discretionary and mandatory programs.
After recent years of fiscal discipline and focus on fiscal responsibility, the anticipated surpluses offer a chance to meet pent-up demand for discretionary domestic spending, increase defense spending, cut taxes, shore up Social Security and Medicare, reduce the debt, or do some combination of these.
Absent significant reform, the escalating costs of these programs will, in decades to come, crowd out what remains of the federal "discretionary" budget--the FBI, NASA, Yosemite, and all the rest.
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.