Trump May Abandon Presidential Duties And Violate The Law By Not Submitting A Budget

[babylonsister]

http://www.politicususa.com/2016/12/04/trump-abandon-presidential-duties-violate-law-submitting-budget.html


Trump May Abandon Presidential Duties And Violate The Law By Not Submitting A Budget

By Jason Easley on Sun, Dec 4th, 2016 at 2:01 pm



The incoming Trump administration is considering violating the law by not submitting a budget for 2018.

Forbes reported, “The Trump administration is seriously thinking about not submitting a budget to Congress next year. Although the Congressional Budget Act requires the president to submit the fiscal 2018 budget to Congress between January 2 and February 6, Trump could easily say that it was the responsibility of the outgoing Obama administration to comply with the law before the new president was sworn in on January 20.”

A violation of the Congressional Budget Act is not a criminal offense, but it would signal that the Trump administration intends to be the least transparent White House in decades.

If Trump refuses to submit a budget, no one will know what his spending priorities are, and more importantly, he won’t have to defend his economic projections or make any of the math add up. By not submitting a budget, Trump will dodge any fiscal accountability for his plans.

One can easily imagine a future where Trump doesn’t submit a budget but instead tweets false information and fuzzy math to try to make his policies add up.

The incoming Trump administration would provide Congress with any guidance as far as spending and priorities are concerned. The former party of fiscal responsibility has become a crowd that isn’t going to try to balance the national checkbook.

The American people should prepare for Republicans to spend money like it is going out of style to benefit the wealthiest Americans and corporations.

The man who as a candidate wouldn’t release his tax returns and his medical records, might not as president release a budget.

All of this is completely in character for an administration that may go down in history as the perfect description of a lawless regime.

[LiberalFighter]

1. Sorry! But I consider PoliticusUSA to be a clickbait website.

[J_William_Ryan]

3. Perhaps.

But the accounting is from Forbes.

Otherwise, Trump seeking dodge any fiscal accountability is nothing new.

[babylonsister]

4. I don't; sometimes

it's their speculation, in which case I will consider not posting it, but this is coming from Forbes. But to each their own.

[LiberalFighter]

6. I rather use original source or another recognized news source.

[madokie]

2. if not for a ton of money left for him by his dad

he'd be pumping gas today

[babylonsister]

5. Hmmm. I do wonder

if he has even the attention span to do that.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

7. If he doesn't submit a budget,

that would mean (I think) that Congress would pass a budget, and very quickly every single thing that relies on money from the federal government would shut down. Yes? No?

[SticksnStones]

8. How can he get congress to allocate funds for his projects if he won't submit a budget?

Does he just take it out of petty cash?

[world wide wally]

9. He's just waiting for Paul Ryan to finish writing it

[Warren DeMontague]

10. Cliffs Notes Presidency

"We were told this test would be multiple choice"

[safeinOhio]

11. Because he will get the blame,

what if Obama files one before he leaves? Might force his hand to file one.

[WhiteTara]

12. Here's the Forbes article on the same

You Heard It Here First: Trump May Not Propose A Budget Next Year
http://www.forbes.com/sites/stancollender/2016/12/04/you-heard-it-here-first-trump-may-not-proposing-a-budget-next-year/#5a31f81a2667

The Trump administration is seriously thinking about not submitting a budget to Congress next year .

Although the Congressional Budget Act requires the president to submit the fiscal 2018 budget to Congress between January 2 and February 6, Trump could easily say that it was the responsibility of the outgoing Obama administration to comply with the law before the new president was sworn in on January 20.

But while the new president not sending a budget to Congress might not be illegal, it would clearly be unprecedented.

Every in-coming president since the Congressional Budget Act went into effect in the mid-1970s has submitted a budget. In many years, those budgets (or amendments to the outgoing president’s final budget) were submitted months after the first-Monday-in-February deadline and were truncated versions of the usual multi-volume presentation. But, a fiscal plan with the new president’s priorities was consistently released for over 4 decades.

Long time federal budget watchers will find Trump’s unwillingness to submit a budget strange because up to now every new administration typically has been eager to submit one in its first year. The reason? It’s the biggest opportunity that will exist to present the president’s plan for all to see and for the White House to dominate the news for a week or more as the details are released, discussed, analyzed and promoted at congressional hearings and other forums.

[treestar]

13. Oh wait,

so a POTUS with six months left should not submit a SCOTUS nominee but one with a few weeks left should submit the budget.

The Orange Idiot just wants to do no work!