House Republicans' Ill-Conceived Budget in Charts

House Republicans' budget resolution for Fiscal Year 2016 is ill-conceived, unrealistic, and unworkable. Instead of making the tough choices needed to invest in our nation's future in a fiscally sustainable way, their budget proposal uses partisan gimmicks to pretend to balance and imposes irresponsible, dramatic cuts well below sequester levels for our domestic priorities. Below are several charts illustrating how extreme the House Republican budget is. 

NEEDS A MAGIC ASTERISK TO PRETEND TO BALANCE

The pie chart below shows how House Republicans once again rely on a “magic asterisk” to make it look like their FY 2016 budget will balance in nine years, without providing enough details on what programs they would cut, and by how much, in order to give a clear picture of the consequences of getting to their goal:

DRAMATIC CUTS TO NON-DEFENSE PRIORITIES

The line graph below shows how much more the House Republicans' FY 2016 budget cuts non-defense discretionary spending below CBO’s baseline from before the Budget Control Act. The House Republican budget more than doubles non-defense sequestration cuts, while the President’s budget restores funding in a fiscally responsible way.

CUTS FAR BELOW THE ALREADY UNREALISTIC SEQUESTER

The bar graph below shows how far House Republicans' FY 2016 budget cuts non-defense discretionary spending beyond the cuts already made by the Budget Control Act’s original caps and the sequester caps, showing how unrealistic these levels are: