The fact that the budget will be ignored marks another stage in the quiet decay of the US government policy-making processes
When President Donald Trump proposes his 2020 federal budget on Monday, official Washington will likely have a quick look, shrug and move on, marking another stage in the quiet decay of the US government’s traditional policy-making processes.
President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump arrive on Air Force One at Palm Beach airport en route to Mar-a-Lago for the weekend."It has seemed to me that budget day ain't what it used to be," said Robert Bixby, who has pored over the budget for more than 25 years at the Concord Coalition, a fiscal responsibility advocacy group.Last year's budget weighed in at a whopping $US4.4 trillion .
The Democratic-ruled House of Representatives and Republican-majority Senate also are unlikely to agree on a joint budget resolution of their own. Instead, they probably will stumble forward until fiscal 2019 ends and a spending deadline arrives on October 1, forcing them to produce a last-minute deal or face another government shutdown.
"Of course, Congress has the power of the purse but the president’s budget plants a flag to define terms of the tax and spending debate in Washington," the official said.One of former President Ronald Reagan's budgets in the 1980s was brought out on a stretcher as a stunt to show the document was alive and well, ahead of it being declared dead-on-arrival in Congress, recalled Stephen Moore, a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank.
Trump's budget office has accelerated the downward slide of the process by using more gimmicks to make up for shortfalls in its budgets, Baer said. "All the normal ways of operating the government have just been thrown out of the window," he said.
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