All told, he would cut discretionary spending by $33 billion in 1998.
In fact, half of discretionary spending still goes for defense.
It will be very difficult to cut discretionary spending much further.
Over the next seven years, Congress plans to cut discretionary spending by about 30 percent.
Of the discretionary spending, more than half goes on security, which is also hard to reduce.
Its cuts in discretionary spending are only $8 billion more than the President's.
Over the last two years overall discretionary spending has increased by 24%.
But in the last four years, discretionary spending has grown about 8 percent a year.
To do so would put total discretionary spending above the cap.
I thought it would result in total control of domestic discretionary spending.
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