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RT @mashable: The Budget Debate in 6 Simple Graphics http://t.co/ZRpbVKpRdk @nationaljournal
May 09, 2013
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The Budget Debate in 6 Simple Graphics
for National Journal The federal budget is incomprehensibly large: $3.5 trillion to fund everything from benefits payments to courts to cops to education to research. There are hundreds of ways to slice it up, but some of the simplest come from the nonpartisan agency in charge of analyzing the budget, the Congressional Budget Office.