Publisher's Synopsis
Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2017 contains the Budget Message of the President, information on the President's priorities, and summary tables. Analytical Perspectives, Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2017 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; information on Federal borrowing and debt; baseline or current services estimates; and other technical presentations. The Analytical Perspectives volume also has supplemental materials that are available on the Budget CD-ROM. These supplemental materials include tables showing the budget by agency and account and by function, subfunction, and program. Appendix, Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2017 contains detailed information on the various appropriations and funds that constitute the budget and is designed primarily for the use of the Appropriations Committees. 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; legislative proposals; narrative explanations of each budget account; and proposed general provisions applicable to the appropriations of entire agencies or group of agencies. Information is also provided on certain activities whose transactions are not part of the budget totals.
