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 U.S. government’s traditional policy-making processes. There was a time when the release of the president'
1 / 2U.S. President Trump walks out to talk to reporters as he departs for travel to Alabama and Florida from the White House in WashingtonU.S. President Donald Trump walks out to talk to reporters as he departs for travel to Alabama and Florida from the White House in Washington, U.S. March 8, 2019. REUTERS/Jonathan ErnstBy Roberta Rampton
But the hoopla of budget day is gone, a relic of a time when politics were less polarized, the federal deficit drove political decisions and the White House and Congress still took the budget process seriously. The 2020 Trump budget will land a month after a deadline established in law, a lag blamed on the recent five-week partial shutdown of the federal government over a funding dispute.
"The entire process has become one of missed deadlines, make-believe budgets filled with gimmicks and magic asterisks," said Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, who said the process has gradually deteriorated into something that is neither serious nor effective.The White House disagreed.
"What we have right now is essentially government by automatic pilot and that's not healthy," Moore said, describing the cycle of last-minute massive omnibus spending bills agreed on only when deadlines loom. Trump's acting budget director, Russell Vought, has said the budget aims to cut non-defense spending and cap spending under levels set in the 2011 Budget Control Act - a feat made possible only with an increase in an emergency account called the Overseas Contingency Operations fund to cover Trump's plan to increase defense spending."It's nothing but an astronomical gimmick! It's over the top! It's so over the top, it's clownish!" Bixby said.
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