Provide a justification of the budget choices you made

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This week we learned about how laws get made by the legislative branch of our government.

One of the biggest laws that regularly gets made by Congress is the Federal Budget. The Federal Budget is a law that spells out how the government will spend its money.

This is a huge power that Congress has that is often called, "The Power of the Purse." If the Congress doesn't give the government money to do something in the Budget, the government won't have the resources do what it might want to do.

Once you have sufficiently addressed each of the specific budget line items and arrived at the tab labeled "results," right click the link labeled: "Save PDF," download the file, and submit this final PDF file along with your text for the following essay.

*Do not forget to also submit your essay. You can upload multiple files in a single assignment submission. If you need help with this please contact your student advisor or instructor.

**It is strongly recommended that you use the Chrome or Firefox web browser for this activity. If you are having trouble getting your final results to display or are having difficulty exporting your final results as a PDF file, please try the following steps:

(1) Use the Chrome or Firefox web browser.

(2) Take and upload screen shots of your budget selections to blackboard along with your essay for this assignment.

Part 2 - Federal Budget Activity Reflection Essay

In at least 500 words answer the following questions:

•Provide a justification of the budget choices you made within one of the following categories: Defense, Domestic, Social Security, Healthcare (you may NOT choose to focus on the categories labeled:

"Budget Path," "Other," "Revenue," or "Tax Expenditures"). In this defense you must address possible counter arguments to the budget decisions you made.

If you are spending more under this category how are you going to get new revenue or gain public support for more deficit spending? If you are cutting funds - what are you going to do with these surplus funds?

•Discuss how this assignment impacted your understanding of the budget process, and the debates between the parties and within Congress have regarding the federal budget? Do you think anything should be done to streamline the current budget process?

•Discuss how difficult this would have been to do this activity as a group project - what budget issues would have been contentious? How could you have come to a compromise?

*Don't forget to upload your pdf file of the budget as well as the text of your essay in your assignment submission.

Please note: APA formatting and citations rules apply to this and all essays in this course.

As with all weekly written assignments, submit your work as an attached file. Double-space your paper and use 12 point Times New Roman as your font. American Government I.

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