Federal Budget 2012: Agency analysis

By Emi Kolawole

Updated 5:51 p.m.:

The president released his 2012 budget proposal on Monday, and Post reporters are breaking down the document agency by agency.

CIA/Intelligence Agencies

By Greg Miller

The Obama administration disclosed Monday that its fiscal 2012 budget proposal includes a request for $55 billion for the CIA and other civilian intelligence services, marking the first time that the amount of money being sought for U.S. spy agencies has been disclosed.Continue reading...

Defense Department

By Walter Pincus

The president's proposed fiscal 2012 budget requests $553 billion for the Defense Department's base spending and another $118 billion for Afghanistan and Iraq for a total of $671 billion. Continue reading...



Food and Drug Administration

By Lyndsey Layton

Under the President's proposed 2012 budget, the Food and Drug Administration would get $2.7 billion, an increase of $147 million compared to the 2010 budget of 2.6 billion. The agency would get another estimated $1.6 billion in user fees paid by pharmaceutical, medical devices and tobacco companies, for a total proposed 2012 budget of $4.4 billion. Continue reading...





Housing and Urban Development

By Dina ElBoghdady

President Obama's proposed budget includes $41.74 billion for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, about $1.1 billion less than what was enacted by Congress for fiscal 2010. Continue reading...

Health and Human Services

By Amy Goldstein

The Health and Human Services budget for fiscal 2012 would be $ 79.9 billion in discretionary spending. Continue reading...

Department of Energy

By Steven Mufson

President Obama's plan would boost the Energy Department's budget to $29.5 billion, up 12 percent from the enacted 2010 budget and up 4 percent from estimated spending in the current fiscal year. Continue reading...

Department of Interior

By Darryl D. Fears

The $12 billion budget for the Interior Department is largely unchanged. But Interior is changing some of the ways it plans to use that money. Continue reading...

Treasury Department

By Brady Dennis

The administration's $14 billion proposed budget for the Treasury Department represents a 4 percent bump from the budget that was enacted in 2010. Continue reading...

Justice Department

By Jerry Markon

The Justice Department is mostly spared the knife under President Obama's proposed 2012 budget, with the FBI and other federal law enforcement agencies slated for spending increases that average about 2 percent. Continue reading...

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

By Darryl D. Fears

President Obama's proposed budget provides $9 billion for the Environmental Protection Agency, noting that amount represents a $1.3 billion decrease from the previous budget year. But that's unlikely to satisfy Republicans in the House who are sharpening their knives to cut even more from an agency that plans to pressure big polluters to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Continue reading...

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)

By Kimberly Kindy

The Obama administration is proposing $23.9 billion in discretionary funding for the Agriculture Department's 2012 budget, a decrease of $3.2 billion, with the biggest cuts coming from direct payments to high-income farmers, rural home loan programs and wetlands conservation programs. Continue reading...

Department of Labor

By Lisa Rein

Labor Department spending under President Obama's 2012 budget would fall five percent from what was enacted in 2010, to $12.8 billion. While the agency is charged with promoting the welfare of workers, job seekers and retirees, the budget released Monday "reflects the need to make sacrifices in many areas," the administration statement says. Continue reading...

Department of Transportation

By Ashley Halsey III

Proposing to spend $128 billion on transportation in fiscal 2012, the heart of the White House spending plan is a push for a six-year renewal of the nation's transportation blueprint. Continue reading...

Environment

By Steven Mufson

In President Obama's new budget plan, the idea of comprehensive climate legislation appears to have disappeared into thin air. Continue reading...

NASA

By Marc Kaufman

The president's proposed 2012 budget for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration is $18.7 billion, almost the same as the appropriated current budget. Continuing a debate over direction begun last year, the budget calls for an increase in spending to help commercial rocket and space companies to develop transport to the International Space Station, and cancels the Bush administration program to build a more conventional new system -- which is still being funded under the 2010 continuing resolution. Continue reading...



State Department/USAID

By Mary Beth Sheridan

President Obama's 2012 budget proposal says that funding for the State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) would increase only 1 percent over 2010 levels, to $47 billion. But that's not the whole picture. Continue reading...

The National Science Foundation

By Brian Vastag

The National Science Foundation emerges as one of the few winners in the president's budget, with the nation's primary funder of non-medical basic research receiving $7.8 billion -- a 13 percent boost over 2010 funding. Continue reading...

Department of Veterans Affairs

By Ed O'Keefe

President Obama's proposed 2012 budget provides $58.8 billion for the Department of Veterans Affairs and places a continued emphasis on the care and benefits for veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Continue reading...

Department of Homeland Security

By Peter Finn

The proposed Department of Homeland Security budget of $43.2 billion amounts to a slight increase of .7 percent, or $309 million, over actual funding levels in 2010. Continue reading...

Department of Education

By Nick Anderson

President Obama wants a major funding increase in the coming year to sustain Pell grants for needy college students and more modest increases to finance his reform agenda for public schools. Continue reading...