Talk:2012 United States federal budget

Doesn't add up.
The numbers given for the 2012 budget parts do not add up to the total given, the total is higher than the sum of the individual parts. Stidmatt (talk) 23:33, 1 November 2011 (UTC)

Obama–Ryan comparison
I'd like to do a side-by-side comparison of the Obama administration and House Republican budget proposals, but the former is broken down by department while the latter is broken down by budget function. Any ideas on how to deal with this difference? Antony–22 (talk⁄contribs) 19:25, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

Found what I'm looking for: Antony–22 (talk⁄contribs) 20:42, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

Figures do not match source
For starters I checked the source for the budget outlays (http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BUDGET-2013-BUD/pdf/BUDGET-2013-BUD.pdf pg 105) and the first line item I checked did not add up. In this case it is the discretionary outlaw for the Department of Energy. The wiki entry shows 42.3 Billion but the source shows 35.6 and the mandatory spending the source shows -.6 Billion while the wiki page shows -1.7 Billion. Before I edit I wanted to be sure I understand or find what it is I'm missing

Ryan aka Grungephreak — Preceding unsigned comment added by Grungephreak (talk • contribs) 17:54, 25 July 2012 (UTC)


 * It looks like you're looking at the 2013 column rather than the 2012 one... Antony–22 (talk⁄contribs) 20:58, 25 July 2012 (UTC)

Wrong numbers?
As far as I can tell, the numbers in "Total outlays by budget function" are wrong... they don't match their own listed sources.

For example, table 32-1's national defense column gives a total of $676.687 billion vs the page's $716.300.

Does anyone know why this is? Should I correct the numbers?

-Clueless (talk) 04:10, 31 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Nevermind, I confused budget authority with budget outlay. My mistake. -Clueless (talk) 04:13, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

Motion to proceed on Obama's budget
The article states "A motion to proceed on President Obama's 2012 budget proposal was defeated in the Senate by a margin of 0-97 votes on May 25, 2011.[5]"

Although this may be technically true, there were a number of attempts by Republican congressmen to introduce highly incomplete versions of President Obama's budget so that they would be voted down and Republicans could claim "no Democrat voted for Obama's budget". See this ABC News article: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/05/house-and-senate-unanimously-reject-obama-budgets-or-do-they/

If the article text is referring to one of these cases, I propose it should be removed or rewritten to elaborate on what actually occurred. If it is not, please provide a citation - the current Washington Examiner link is broken. Furthermore, that publication is conservative-leaning. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.14.64.234 (talk) 15:20, 20 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the heads-up! Antony–22 (talk⁄contribs) 02:52, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

"Total outlays by agency" table not working properly
When trying to sort the table "Total outlays by agency" by requested discretionary spending (the first column of values), it instead sorts the table alphabetically by agency name. Tried to fix it but I couldn't figure out how.AaronMP84 (talk) 12:02, 3 January 2013 (UTC)


 * I've fixed it—the problem was that having a double title row didn't work well with the sorting mechanism. Antony–22 (talk⁄contribs) 18:50, 3 January 2013 (UTC)