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1 Controllable Fiscal 1968 Federal Expenditures 1 (1967)

handle is hein.tera/controlales0001 and id is 1 raw text is: SPECIAL REPORT 1967-3 CONTROLLABLE FISCAL 1968 FEDERAL EXPENDITURES Reducible Domestic-Civilian Spending Programs Identified Tax Foundation's Special Report 1967-2, published in March, analyzed the $135.0 billion of estimated Federal administrative budget expenditures for fiscal 1968 in terms of their controllability through the Congressional appropriation process. That analysis suggested that $79.4 of the projected fiscal 1968 spending total was relatively uncoitrollable -- i.e., tech- nically beyond the immediate control of the Congress by virtue of statutory or other commitments. The balance of the estimated fiscal 1968 spending -- about $55.6 billion - - represents what may be classified as the relatively controllable pro- posed expenditures. Actually, there is no universally accepted standard which establishes a precise dividing line between controllable and un- controllable Federal expenditures. The most objective attempt at classi- fication will lead to honest differences in definition and interpretation. Moreover, in the technical sense, as the Director of the Bureau of the Budget recently pointed out, there is no such thing as an absolutely uncontrollable expenditure; Congress is not prevented from taking any action which might affect expenditures. From the practical standpoint, however, history suggests that such actions, while not impossible, are un- likely to occur in the areas of spending previously classified as rela- tively uncontrollable, As a follow-up to the earlier report, detailed analysis now has been com- pleted of those line items in the fiscal 1968 Federal budget which were not included in the relatively uncontrollable category, so as to identify more specifically areas of Federal spending which are subject to control through the Congressional appropriation process -- in other words, the re- ducible Federal spending programs. The tabulation included in this report (beginning on page5) lisLs a large number of domestic-civilian spending programs which are at least subject to direct annual Congressional control. The estimated expenditures in- volved total almost $33.5 billion. Additionally, for the purpose of demonstrating the sharp rise which has re- cently occurred in expenditures for these controllable domestic-civilian programs a second column is included, showing actual expenditures in fis- cal 1966 for each of the programs or activities listed. The total pro-

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