Obama’s Missing Budget
A Budget Delayed, to Little G.O.P. Sympathy
By JACKIE CALMES, NYT
WASHINGTON — After a year-end fiscal crisis and protracted deficit-cutting negotiations between the White House and Congress scrambled the government’s accounting, the president was more than a month late in meeting a deadline set by law for getting his annual budget to Capitol Hill in the new year.
President Obama? Yes, and Republicans are not happy about it. But before him there was President Ronald Reagan, who exactly a quarter-century ago sent his budget to Congress 45 days late, citing the disruptions and data changes forced by the late-1987 deficit reduction deal that he had negotiated with Democrats, who controlled Congress.
As of Friday, Mr. Obama is 32 days late in delivering his budget for the 2014 fiscal year, which starts Oct. 1. Even now, White House officials will not say when it will surface, but some privately suggest early April.
That time frame would cause Mr. Obama to break Mr. Reagan’s record for tardiness by a president who is not new to the office. The blueprint’s arrival would follow House and Senate action over the next two weeks on their respective budgets, reversing the usual order; the president has gone first since 1921. And the delay would lend new meaning to the abbreviation for the White House Office of Management and Budget, O.M.B. — Obama’s Missing Budget.
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WASHINGTON — After a year-end fiscal crisis and protracted deficit-cutting negotiations between the White House and Congress scrambled the government’s accounting, the president was more than a month late in meeting a deadline set by law for getting his annual budget to Capitol Hill in the new year.
President Obama? Yes, and Republicans are not happy about it. But before him there was President Ronald Reagan, who exactly a quarter-century ago sent his budget to Congress 45 days late, citing the disruptions and data changes forced by the late-1987 deficit reduction deal that he had negotiated with Democrats, who controlled Congress.
As of Friday, Mr. Obama is 32 days late in delivering his budget for the 2014 fiscal year, which starts Oct. 1. Even now, White House officials will not say when it will surface, but some privately suggest early April.
That time frame would cause Mr. Obama to break Mr. Reagan’s record for tardiness by a president who is not new to the office. The blueprint’s arrival would follow House and Senate action over the next two weeks on their respective budgets, reversing the usual order; the president has gone first since 1921. And the delay would lend new meaning to the abbreviation for the White House Office of Management and Budget, O.M.B. — Obama’s Missing Budget.
(More here.)
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