The federal government creates the federal budget each year in order to: a. decide how much money the government will spend.
b. reduce the national debt as much as possible.
c. guarantee that the government will have a surplus.
d. remove government regulations about mandatory spending.

In this backgrounder, we address: the President's annual budget request, decides how much money to spend each year, what to spend it on, and how policy: (a) how much money the federal government should spend on public  and (c) how much of a deficit (or surplus) the federal government

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