Republicans Holding Economy Hostage

Here, try and educate yourself...

The process

The President's budget request

Congressional consideration of the federal budget begins once the President of the United States submits a budget request, which is formulated over a period of months with the assistance of the Office of Management and Budget, the largest office within the Executive Office of the President. The budget request includes funding requests for all federal executive departments and independent agencies.
The President submits the budget request each year to Congress for the following fiscal year, as required by the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921. Current law (31 U.S.C. 1105(a))[4] requires the President to submit a budget no earlier than the first Monday in January, and no later than the first Monday in February. Typically, Presidents submit budgets on the first Monday in February.
The President's budget request constitutes an extensive proposal of the administration's intended spending and revenue plans for the following fiscal year. The budget proposal includes volumes of supporting information intended to persuade Congress of the necessity and value of the budget provisions. In addition, each federal executive department and independent agency provides additional detail and supporting documentation to Congress on its own funding requests.

 

I hope you learned something looking that up - kind of like learning that all bills do not originate oin the House.

And apparently the President and each of his federal executive departments and independent agencies have been far from persuasive. Would you care to tell us how many votes his budget proposals have received - including his own party?

 

I would suggest, as the President, BO has an obligation to the country to make sure the country has a national budget. He can blame the right as much as he wants but the guy was able to get Obamacare passed without a single Rep vote (and considerable dimocRAT objection). Immigration reform, tax reform, Social Sec reform...you name it...he had the votes to get anything passed if he cared enough to do it.

 

Naill Ferguson is a notoriously bad historian, Krugmann is an economist. Therefore, both are equally dishonest.