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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.
Many academic scientists control discretionary resources and, in some cases, tropical disease grants.
Agriculture and welfare programs have been reformed in ways that will save money, and discretionary spending was cut vigorously in fiscal 1996.
On this day of all days of discretionary news, the papers revert to type.
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.