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Across 7. This specify how much money will go to different government agencies and programs (2 Words) 14. Revenue losses that result from special exemptions, exclusions, or deductions on federal tax law (5 Words) 16. When Congress cannot reach agreement and pass appropriations bills, these resolutions allow agencies to spend at the level of the previous year (2 Words) 17. An excess of federal expenditures over federal revenues 18. The day the budget begins (2 Words) 19. The one that drafts the budget 20. Permitted Congress to levy an income tax (2 Words) 23. As of June 4, 2015, total__________ stood at $18.153 trillion. (2 Words) 24. Signed the Social Security Act into law in 1935. (3 Words) 25. All of the money borrowed by the federal government over the years and still outstanding (2 Words) 27. Has the primary responsibility for preparing the federal budget (4 Words) 28. They delegate the "power of the purse" 29. If government spending is greater than tax collections, the result is a

Down 1. Designed to reform the congressional budgetary process and regain power previously lost to the executive branch. They also created a fixed budget calendar. (8 Words) 2. Grants Congress power to collect taxes (4 Words) 3. A resolution binding Congress to a total expenditure level, supposedly the bottom line of all federal spending for all programs (2 Words) 4. Congress and the president have no power to directly change (2 Words) 5. They are the most expensive programs in the federal budget. (4 Words) 6. Controlled by the executive and legislative branches. The president proposes the federal budget and Congress passes it. It raises and lowers taxes and government spending programs. 8. When Congress cannot agree on 12 separate appropriations bills, it will often resort to an.. (2 Words) 9. An act of Congress that establishes, continues, or changes a discretionary government program or an entitlement. It specifies program goals and maximum expenditures for discretionary programs (2 Words) 10. advises Congress on the probable consequences of its budget decisions, forecasts revenues and is a counterweight to the presidents OMB (3 Words) 11. Spending that Congress legislates outside the annual appropriations process, usually less than once a year. It also makes up nearly two-thirds of the total federal budget. (2 Words) 12. Regulates the money supply, controlling inflation, and adjusting interest rates, it is controlled by the Federal Reserve Board. 13. a program that guarantees a specific level of benefits to persons who meet requirements set by law. Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, unemployment insurance, and veterans' pensions and benefits are all under this program. (2 Words) 14. Both write and vote on their own budget resolutions (5 Words) 15. Shares of individual waves and corporate revenues collected by the government. (2 Words) 21. The income tax system is designed to be.. 22. The individual income tax and Social Security tax are two major sources of.. 26. If revenues are greater than spending, the result is a