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The Reagan Budget: A Significant Departure from the Past

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2022

John R. Gist
John R. Gist*
Affiliation:
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
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In the aggregate President Reagan's budget does not differ significantly from budget growth during the early 1970s. If the budget is slightly disaggregated, however, it is clear that the Administration is dramatically altering U.S. spending patterns.

As part of his program for economic recovery announced last February and March, President Reagan called for $475 billion in budget reductions over fiscal years 1981–86. He also proposed the use of the budget reconciliation process provided for in the 1974 Congressional Budget Act as the vehicle for implementing the first installment of these massive cuts in federal spending. In this paper I will discuss the Reagan budget plan in broad outline, and then compare certain aspects of it with the outcome of the reconciliation process and with some recent budget trends.

Type
The Reagan Budget: Redistribution of Power and Responsibilities, Five Perspectives
Information
PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 14 , Issue 4 , Fall 1981 , pp. 738 - 747
Copyright
Copyright © The American Political Science Association 1981

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References

1 This information was provided by Joyce Murdoch of Murdoch News Service.

2 Congressional Budget Office, An Analysis of President Reagan's Budget Revisions for FY 1982, p. 50.

3 Ibid., p. 49.

4 Mowery, D. C., Kamlet, M. S. and Crecine, J. P.. “Presidential Management of Budgetary and Fiscal Policymaklng,” Political Science Quarterly 95 (Fall, 1980), p. 400.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

5 Congressional Budget Office, Baseline Budget Projections: Fiscal Years 1982–86. Table 6.

6 Congressional Budget Office, An Analysis of President Reagan's Budget Revisions, Table 20.

7 Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report. May 16, 1981, p. 840.