What does Paul Ryan’s budget really cut?

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Brad Plummer has a piece up at The Washington Post purporting to explain “What Paul Ryan’s budget actually cuts — and by how much.” But besides some scary sounding factoids like, “Compared with Obama, Ryan would spend 25 percent less on transportation,” Plummer’s post doesn’t give a real good big picture comparing the two budgets (where are the charts?).

Below is a chart comparing the 2016 federal spending levels, as estimated by the Congressional Budget Office and the White House, of both the Obama and Ryan budgets.

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