2.5: Budget Documents
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The president's annual budget submission and the congressional budget resolutions are the planning documents that the president
and Congress use to map the direction of government spending each year. These documents are published authoritatively, and
they are consistently available, which is good. They are sometimes machine discoverable, but they are not terribly machine-
readable. The appendices to the president's budget are published in XML format, which vastly reduces the time it takes to
work with the data in them. That's really good. But the congressional budget resolutions "when they exist " have no similar
organization, and there is low correspondence between the budget resolutions that Congress puts out and the budget the president
puts out. You would think that a person -- or better yet, a computer -- should be able to lay these documents side by side
for comparison, but nobody can. For its use of XML, the White House gets a B-. Congress gets a D.
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