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Prime Cuts recommendations are drawn from the following sources:



Abbreviation Prime Cuts Sources
Boehner/Cantor '09 Rep. John Boehner and Rep. Eric Cantor, Proposals to Reduce the Deficit and Achieve Savings for American Taxpayers (June 4, 2009).
Bush '08 Executive Office of the President of the United States, Major Savings and Reforms in the President's 2008 Budget (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, February 2007).
CAGW Citizens Against Government Waste
CBO '00 Congressional Budget Office, Budget Options (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, March 2000).
CBO '01 Congressional Budget Office, Budget Options (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, February 2001).
CBO '03 Congressional Budget Office, Budget Options (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, March 2003).
CBO '05 Congressional Budget Office, Budget Options (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, February 2005).
CBO '07 Congressional Budget Office, Budget Options (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, February 2007).
CBO '09 Congressional Budget Office, Budget Options (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, August 2009)
CBO '11 Congressional Budget Office, Reducing the Deficit: Spending and Revenue Options (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, March 2011)
CBO '13 Congressional Budget Office, Options for Reducing the Deficit: 2014 to 2023 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, November 2013)
CBO '16 Congressional Budget Office, Options for Reducing the Deficit: 2017 to 2026 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, December 2016)
CBO '19 Congressional Budget Office, Options for Reducing the Deficit: 2019 to 2028 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, December 2018)
CBO '21 Congressional Budget Office, Options for Reducing the Deficit: 2021 to 2030 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, December 2020)
CBO '22 Congressional Budget Office, Options for Reducing the Deficit: 2023 to 2032 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, December 2022)
Fiscal Commission The National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, The Moment of Truth (December 2010).
GAO '04 Government Accountability Office, Opportunities for Congressional Oversight (May 2004).
GAO '17 Government Accountability Office, Additional Opportunities to Reduce Fragmentation, Overlap, and Duplication (April 27, 2017)
Obama '09 Office of Management and Budget, Terminations, Reductions, and Savings Budget of the U.S. Government Fiscal Year 2010 (Washington, D.C.: Office of Management and Budget).
Obama '11 Office of Management and Budget, Terminations, Reductions, and Savings Budget of the U.S. Government Fiscal Year 2011 (Washington, D.C.: Office of Management and Budget).
Obama '12 Office of Management and Budget, Terminations, Reductions, and Savings Budget of the U.S. Government Fiscal Year 2012 (Washington, D.C.: Office of Management and Budget).
Obama '14 Office of Management and Budget, Discretionary Cuts, Consolidations, and Savings Budget of the U.S. Government Fiscal Year 2015 (Washington, D.C.: Office of Management and Budget).
Obama '15 Office of Management and Budget, Discretionary Cuts, Consolidations, and Savings Budget of the U.S. Government Fiscal Year 2016 (Washington, D.C.: Office of Management and Budget).
Obama '16 Office of Management and Budget, Discretionary Cuts, Consolidations, and Savings Budget of the U.S. Government Fiscal Year 2017 (Washington, D.C.: Office of Management and Budget).
Obama '17 Office of Management and Budget, Discretionary Cuts, Consolidations, and Savings Budget of the U.S. Government Fiscal Year 2017 (Washington, D.C.: Office of Management and Budget).
Penny/Kasich Rep. John R. Kasich and Rep. Timothy J. Penny, The Common Sense Deficit Reduction Act of 1993 (November 22, 1993).
PPSSCC President's Private Sector Survey on Cost Control, Reports of the President's Private Sector Survey on Cost Control (1983).
REPBUD House Budget Committee, Republican Caucus, The Republican Budget Initiative for Fiscal Year 1995 (March 3, 1994).
RSC '05 Republican Study Committee, Operation Offset (September 22, 2005).
RSC '10 Republican Study Committee, Sunset Caucus Waste Action Alert (March 10, 2010).
RSC '11 Republican Study Committee, Spending Reduction Act of 2011 (January, 2011).
RSC '23 Republican Study Committee, Protecting America's Security (June 14, 2023).
Trump '19 Office of Management and Budget, Major Savings and Reforms Fiscal Year 2019 (Washington, D.C.: Office of Management and Budget).
Trump '20 Office of Management and Budget, Major Savings and Reforms Fiscal Year 2020 (Washington, D.C.: Office of Management and Budget).
Trump '21 Office of Management and Budget, Major Savings and Reforms Fiscal Year 2021 (Washington, D.C.: Office of Management and Budget).