With Congress drafting its 2009 budget blueprint and President Bush already promising to veto appropriations bills that exceed his tight funding levels for domestic programs, you might think that domestic discretionary programs -- what Congress funds through the annual appropriations process, such as education, biomedical research, and transportation -- have "exploded" in costs in recent years, as some critics charge. The story is far different.
At the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, we compared the most recent federal budget...
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