Charting the Budget

House and Senate budgeteers say their first efforts — the budgets filed on both sides of the rotunda this week — are mere starting points. This isn't where they'll end up, etc. etc., etc. That said, the House came in with a budget that is 1.15 percent smaller than the current budget. The Senate's starter is 1.61 percent smaller than the current model. And the current version will swell in a few weeks when lawmakers add supplemental appropriations to it to cover impending costs of Medicaid, fighting wildfires, medical care in state prisons and other sundries. Here's a look at the new proposals, by broad subject area, comparing the proposals to the current budget and to each other.