The American Presidency Project

Differences in Appropriations Proposed by the President and Passed by Congress

Truman - Clinton

 

President
Defense (Average)
Non-Defense (Annual)
 (Difference)
Eisenhower
 -4.6 -0.3 -5.3
Eisenhower
 -1.0 0.1 -1.0
Kennedy/Johnson
 -2.4 -7.4 -9.3
Johnson
 1.0 -10.4 -10.9
Nixon
 -16.0 2.5 -12.8
Nixon/Ford
 -9.2 25.4 15.8
Carter
 9.8 -32.3 -21.6
Reagan
 8.9 5.6 16.4
Reagan
 2.7 19.1 21.9
Bush
 -2.4 4.9 2.5
Clinton
 2.5 -24.3 -21.8

 

Source(s)

Lyn Ragsdale, Presidential Politics (Boston:Houghton Mifflin, 1993), 329 and Lyn Ragsdale, Vital Statistics on the Presidency (Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Press, 1998), 359.