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