House Budget Resolution Big on Impact, Small on Details
Budget Brief 11-04
On April 5, 2011, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan released his
proposed budget resolution for fiscal year (FY) 2012. The House Budget
Committee approved the measure on April 6. The budget resolution would
set the level of total non-security discretionary spending for next year
at $102 billion less than the president’s request, $58 billion less
than the annualized spending levels for FY 2011 contained in a stopgap
funding measure that expires April 8, and $72 billion below
appropriations in FY 2010. While scarce on details, the resolution
outlines significant changes to Medicare, Medicaid, and other programs.
At the request of the House Budget Committee chairman, the Congressional
Budget Office (CBO) conducted a long-term analysis of key proposals
included in the budget resolution. However, the analysis is not based on
legislation language or the proposed budget resolution, but rather on
the major provisions of the proposal as described by the chairman’s
staff.