Budget Control Act Reduces Discretionary Spending
to Pre-Stimulus Levels
IN BILLIONS OF 2014
INFLATION-ADJUSTED DOLLARS
$1,500
$1,000
$500
1965:
$451
billion
$0
Budget Control Act in effect
Stimulus ends
2008: $1,238 billion
2014:
$1,174
billion
Nondefense
Defense
1965 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2014
Source: U.S. Office of Management and Budget, Budget of the United States Government,
Fiscal Year 2015: Historical Tables, 2014, pp. 172-178, Table 8.7, http://www.whitehouse.gov/
omb/budget/HistoricaIs/ (accessed September 17, 2014).
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Federal Spending by the Numbers 2014
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