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A fact from 2013 United States federal budget appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 16 December 2011 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the 2013 United States federal budget may impose a 23% cut on the defense budget due to the Budget Control Act of 2011, according to Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta?

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GMO Controversy

I believe there needs to be a place to outline Section 735 (often called the "Monsanto Protection Act") and its surrounding controversy. I'm not sure if this article is the right place to do it, but I believe it needs proper, factual coverage on Wikipedia. Thoughts? 160.79.104.98 (talk) 02:52, 4 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Is the total computed incorrectly?

The budget line items adds up to far more than the total value; perhaps the "other" category has a typo? someone should check & correct this, and/or explain the meaning of the "other" category.Abecediarian (talk) 23:55, 27 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

It seems that link #14 ("Fiscal Year 2013 Budget of the U.S. Government". United States Office of Management and Budget. Retrieved 13 February 2012.), which was supposed to be a source for the 2013 Budget, is broken. However this page on whitehouse.gov probably contains the correct information about the budget. Can somebody retreive it and correct the table? Vikasatkin (talk) 02:24, 5 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Other Spending

In the Chart showing agency expenditures there is an item "other spending" which totals $1,270.5 Billion, what is this other spending? Wizardi3 (talk) 14:21, 6 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

There is something wrong with the chart. I updated to at least get the totals to tie, by plugging the horizontal sum gap into discretionary, assuming the departmental amounts were correct and plugging new "other" amounts to tie to the totals vertically. Something may be wrong with the splits and perhaps totals by function. I'll look into it over the next couple of weeks.18:45, 6 July 2012 (UTC)

I checked all the source data. Table should now be accurate, within rounding.Farcaster (talk) 01:00, 9 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Outlays by Agency

Why are agencies ordered in terms of discretionary spending? Order them in terms of the total..

You can click on the arrows in the column header to sort any way you want.

RE: Implications of the Budget Control Act

The paragraph states that, "The FY2013 defense budget would be reduced 11%, from $525 billion to $472 billion, after already having been cut from $571 billion in the first installment of cuts in the Budget Control Act. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta initially gave the total cut figure as 23%."

The full text of the Budget Control Act (http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PLAW-112publ25/pdf/PLAW-112publ25.pdf) in fact limits defense department discretionary spending to $546 billion in FY2013. This does not agree with the Wikipedia paragraph cited above. The DOD-published budget for 2013 (as of March 2012 (Green Book at http://comptroller.defense.gov/defbudget/fy2013/FY13_Green_Book.pdf) lists a Budget Authority of $639.06 billion for discretionary spending. Reduction of discretionary spending to $546 billion is a 14.56% cut. I am not questioning the quote by Secretary Panetta, just the arithmetic. Gdilno (talk) 18:51, 2 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Actual versus requested deficit

I have deleted a change in the requested deficit numbers, because it should be the requested, not the latest forecasted number that is displayed. After FY 2013 is closed we can add what the actual deficit was. Rollerton (talk)

Defense spending?

According to the Office of Management and Budget the US discretionary military expenditures amounted to $525 billion, with an additional $88 billion in supplementary spending. Why is this number so different from what we have up?

http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/budget/fy2013/assets/budget.pdf — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.135.164.254 (talk) 11:38, 12 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I assume you're looking at the table on pages 83 and 84 of that document. The listed numbers are the total outlays reported at the end of that table. The numbers you cited are "budget authority" numbers, which are slightly different for technical reasons. There is a longer explanation at United States federal budget#Budget authority versus outlays. Antony–22 (^talk⁄_contribs) 20:48, 12 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]