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Federal Budgeting After September 11th: A Whole New Ballgame, or Is It Déjà Vu All Over Again?
Author(s) -
Joyce Philip G.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
public budgeting and finance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.694
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1540-5850
pISSN - 0275-1100
DOI - 10.1111/j.0275-1100.2005.00352.x
Subject(s) - homeland security , déjà vu , government (linguistics) , federal budget , business , norm (philosophy) , political science , public administration , finance , law , psychology , fiscal year , linguistics , philosophy , terrorism , cognitive psychology
Federal budgeting has undergone some profound changes since the tragic events of September 11th, 2001. Large surpluses that existed prior to September 11th and were forecast to continue have been replaced by equally large and intractable deficits. The consensus around a macro‐level norm for federal budgeting has completely broken down. In other ways, the federal budget process has not changed at all. Despite the emphasis on defense and homeland security, domestic discretionary spending is still continuing unabated, as it has since the late 1980s. Further, the federal government continues to have chronic difficulty adopting its budget in a timely fashion.