The President’s 2023 Budget: What Would Happen

We read an article on CNN that made us pause, so we did research into President Biden’s Budget. We will show you how to find it with Google Search, and how to quickly understand the big picture of taxing and spending. We will then discuss what happens if it passes as-is.

The White House Budget is easy to find. Do a Google Search for ‘white house budget’ and you get an official white house link.

There is a short introduction page. Press the button on the lower right of the picture to download and open the .PDF file. It is about 200 pages long.

You open the PDF and I suggest skip the introduction messages. That is where others tell you what is in the budget and how to best understand it. They give you context and narrative. Let’s go right to the table of contents instead, and click on Summary Tables.

The first summary table is the most important, and shows the big picture. It gives receipts (taxes collected) and outlays (money spent), along with the…