Federal spending is still front and center, and it is also an election year. The best bet for this year is that there will not be a congressional budget.
The Federal Budget and Impoundment Control Act was enacted by Congress in July 1974 as a response to President Nixon simply taking appropriation matters into his own hands and refusing to spend monies as Congress had designated and authorized. That is also when the federal budget moved to a fiscal year starting with a transition quarter in FY 1976. Since that time, the federal budget has grown about 987 percent (as shown below). Over that same period, inflation has increased about 335 percent. In other words, federal spending in real terms has expanded approximately 295 percent.The pres...
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