The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued Statements on Administration Policy (SAP) on the House Department of Homeland Security Appropriations bill and on the Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations bill on June 3. The SAPs recommend that President Barack Obama veto these bills. “Unless this bill passes the Congress in the context of an overall budget framework that supports our recovery… the President’s senior advisors would recommend that he veto… legislation that implements the House Republican Budget framework,” wrote OMB in both of the SAPs. In the SAPs, the Administration criticizes the House decision to allocate a high percentage of FY14 funding to these appropriations bills, because that would leave little funding for the remaining appropriations bills. The House and Senate have yet to agree to an overall FY14 spending level. The House’s spending level is $967 billion and the Senate is expected to mark up its appropriations at the $1.058 trillion spending level, which is consistent with caps set in Budget Control Act of 2011. The House has not only set its FY14 spending level at a lower level than the BCA dictates, but it has also violated the division of defense and non-defense funding by providing a higher level of funding for defense programs than allowed by law. Later in the week of June 3, House leadership announced plans to continue to move all appropriations bills to the floor, while criticizing the President’s veto threat.The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) issued a report on the House appropriations plan, estimating that the Committee on Appropriations plan would provide more than $45 billion than allowed by the BCA defense spending caps. In the June 5 report, CBPP says that increasing defense funding and lowering non-defense discretionary funding by the same amount, would result in a “fourth wave” of deep cuts to these programs that started with FY11 appropriations bills. View the SAPs: http://1.usa.gov/10MGPv6http://1.usa.gov/10MGEA3View the CBPP report: http://bit.ly/ZEMGlf