Budget of the United States Government

THE BUDGET DOCUMENTS

Mid-Session Review, Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2008 (52 pages, 1.13 mb) contains revised estimates of budget receipts, outlays, and budget authority for fiscal years 2007 through 2012 and other summary information.

Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2008 contains the Budget Message of the President, information on the President’s budget and management priorities, and budget overviews organized by agency.

Analytical Perspectives, Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2008 contains analyses that are designed to highlight specified subject areas or provide other significant presentations of budget data that place the budget in perspective. This volume includes economic and accounting analyses; information on Federal receipts and collections; analyses of Federal spending; detailed information on Federal borrowing and debt; baseline or current services estimates; and other technical presentations.

The Analytical Perspectives volume also contains a CD-ROM with several large tables previously published in the budget documents, along with summaries of new performance assessments and updates on earlier assessments for approximately 600 Federal programs.

Current Program Assessment Rating Tool summaries and details are available on ExpectMore.gov including a CSV File for Researchers and Academics and the data model diagram. Government-wide PART summary data is also available in PDF and XLS format on the OMB website.

Historical Tables, Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2008 (336 pages, 2.2 mb) provides data on budget receipts, outlays, surpluses or deficits, Federal debt, and Federal employment over an extended time period, generally from 1940 or earlier to 2008. To the extent feasible, the data have been adjusted to provide consistency with the 2008 Budget and to provide comparability over time.

Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2008—Appendix contains detailed information on the various appropriations and funds that constitute the budget and is designed primarily for the use of the Appropriations Committee. The Appendix contains more detailed financial information on individual programs and appropriation accounts than any of the other budget documents. It includes for each agency: the proposed text of appropriations language, budget schedules for each account, new legislative proposals, explanations of the work to be performed and the funds needed, and proposed general provisions applicable to the appropriations of entire agencies or group of agencies. Information is also provided on certain activities whose outlays are not part of the budget totals.

SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS

Major Savings and Reforms in the President's 2008 Budget (211 pages, 2.0 mb)

Federal Credit Supplement (71 pages, 438 kb)

Object Class Analysis (128 pages, 1.4 mb)

Balances of Budget Authority (91 pages, 488 kb)

The Budget System and Concepts (22 pages, 250 kb)

Report on Information Technology (IT) Spending for the Federal Government (Excel, 11 mb)

ADDITIONAL SOURCES OF BUDGET INFORMATION

Spreadsheets
Many of the tables in the Budget, Analytical Perspectives and Historical Tables are available for download in spreadsheet (XLS) format.

Public Budget Database
The Public Budget Database provides account level detail for budget authority (1976-2008), outlays (1962-2008) and receipts (1976-2008). This data is provided in various formats along with a user's guide.

Prior Year Budgets
Budget documents for current and prior years are available for downloading and viewing at the Government Printing Office (GPO) web site.

GPO also maintains a searchable database of selected budget documents in PDF and text formats.

Printed Budget Documents
Budget documents are available for purchase from GPO.

Budget CD-ROM
The CD-ROM contains all the budget documents and software to support reading, printing, and searching the documents. The CD-ROM also has many of the tables in the budget in spreadsheet format. The budget also contains the material on the Analytical Perspectives CD-ROM.