House Budget Committee - Democrats - The President's Budget

House Seal

The President's Budget

Each February, the President submits a budget request to Congress for the coming fiscal year. The following documents relate to the President's budget request. Unless otherwise noted, this page contains links to analyses by the House Budget Committee's Democratic staff. To see the President's budget documents online, visit the web site of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) or the budget web page of the Government Printing Office.

To view charts and graphics on the President's budget, click here.

FY 2007

Title	Date
Homeland Security in the President’s 2007 Budget: Budget in Brief #9	3/27/06
Mandatory Cuts in the President’s 2007 Budget: Budget in Brief #8	3/24/06
Environmental Funding Slashed in the President’s 2007 Budget: Budget in Brief #7	3/23/06
Tax Cuts Lead to Massive Budget Deficits in the President’s 2007 Budget: Budget in Brief #6	3/22/06
Veterans Discretionary Budget Cut $10 Billion Over Five Years: Budget in Brief #5	3/21/06
Overview of the President’s 2007 Budget: Budget in Brief #4	3/21/06
Health Spending Cuts In the President’s 2007 Budget: Budget in Brief #3	3/17/06
Education Funding Slashed In the President’s 2007 Budget: Budget in Brief #2	3/15/06
Family and Community Services Cut in President's Budget: Budget in Brief #1	3/14/06
Summary and Analysis of the President's Fiscal Year 2007 Budget (by section)	3/16/06
Summary and Analysis of the President's Fiscal Year 2007 Budget	2/09/06

FY 2006

Title	Date
Administration Finally Releases List of More than 150 Programs that President Bush will Eliminate or Cut in 2006	2-16-05
The President's Fiscal Year 2006 Budget	2-11-05

FY 2006 Preview

Title	Date	PDF Version
Cuts in Park Service, Conservation Measures, and Pollution Control Await Labor Day Travelers: The President's Environmental Budget Cut in 2005, Cuts in 2006 on the Way.	9-3-04
Labor Day Plans of a Different Kind: The Administration Targets Work Programs for Cuts in 2006	9-1-04
Will "Back to School" Be Harder Next Year? Bush Administration Plans Steep Cuts for 2006 Education Funding	8-31-04
President Bush Wants to Slash Key Public Services, But He Won't Tell the Public	8-13-04
The Administration’s Programmed Budget Cuts in 2006 Will Mean Reduced Health Care Services for Veterans	6-25-04
Administration Confirms Its Plan to Cut Many Services Deeply in 2006	6-1-04
The Administration's Hidden Budget: Cuts in Programs for 2005 and Beyond	2-19-04

FY 2005

Title	Date	PDF Version
The Mid-Session Review: Deficits Are Back, and They’re Worse Than Before	7-30-04
The Case of the Missing Mid-Session Review Report	7-15-04
Mid-Session Review: Improving Low Expectations Is Not Progress	7-7-04
Administration’s $25 Billion Request for Iraq and Afghanistan Operations Will Cover Only a Fraction of Fiscal Year 2005 Costs	5-11-04
Budget in Brief #4: Bush Budget Cuts Services for Small Businesses	2-27-04
Budget in Brief #3: President's Budget Cuts Environmental Protection Programs	2-26-04
Budget in Brief #2: Four Ways the Bush Budget Leaves Workers Behind	2-25-04
Budget in Brief: Six Noteworthy Facts About the Bush Veterans Budget	2-24-04
Bush Budget Relies on Unrealistic User Fees	2-12-04
The Bush Economy: Jobs Deficit, Jobs Debt	2-10-04
Long Summary and Analysis of the President's 2005 Budget: Unfair and Unbalanced	2-6-04
Instant Summary and Analysis of the President's 2005 Budget: Unfair and Unbalanced	2-2-04
Defense Budget Grows Rapidly Under Bush Administration	1-26-04
The President's "Jobs" Program	1-21-04
Response to the President's State of the Union	1-21-04

FY 2004

Title	Date	PDF Version
“Debt Tax” Will Soar Under Republican Policies	6-16-03
CBO’s “Dynamic” Analysis of President’s Budget Shows No Boost to the Economy and Large, Chronic Deficits	3-27-03
Update to Summary and Analysis of the President's 2004 Budget (reflects enactment of 2003 appropriations)	3-9-03
This is Compassion? Bush Budget Raises Rents for Poorest Americans	3-3-03
With Deficit Already Worse Than Administration Predictions, Consumers Give Bush Administration Thumbs-Down	2-26-03
Weak Economy Already Falling Short of Budget’s Rosy Economic Assumptions	2-12-03
Summary and Analysis of the President's 2004 Budget (also see the March 9 update to selected sections of this report)	2-04-03

FY 2003

Title	Date	PDF Version
The Republican Debt Party	10-30-02
Republican Budget Slashes Domestic Priorities and Spends Social Security Surplus	10-25-02
CBO's Budget and Economic Update: Republican Policies Cause $1.3 Trillion More Debt Than White House Acknowledges	8-27-02
Broken Budget: The Administration's Mid-Session Review	7-16-02
Budget Watchdog: Administration's Foreign Assistance Proposals	7-09-02
The Truth About Social Security Privatization	6-27-02
The President’s Environmental Budget: Same Failures, New Excuses	3-11-02
Fuzzy Math in the President's Education Budget	3-8-02
The President's 2003 Budget and Rural America	3-8-02
“Off-the-Books” Accounting Means the President’s Budget Spends the Entire Social Security Surplus	3-7-02
The President's 2003 Health Budget	3-5-02
Return to Red Ink: Back to Budget Deficits A 99-Page Summary and Analysis of the President’s Fiscal Year 2003 Budget	revised 3-4-02

For information about previous President's budgets, click on the following links:

FY 2002

FY 1998 through FY 2001