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Tuesday, January 15, 2013

White House Tells Paul Ryan It Won’t Meet Budget Deadline

The White House has informed House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) that it will miss the legal deadline for sending a budget to Congress.

Acting Budget Director Jeff Zients told Ryan in a letter delivered Friday that the budget will not be delivered by Feb. 4, as required by law.

Zients blamed the delay on the late passage of the “fiscal cliff” deal, and wrote that the administration is “working diligently on our budget request.”

Under the law, President Obama must submit a budget by the first Monday in February, but he has met the deadline only once. The annual budget submission is supposed to start a congressional budgeting process, but that has also broken down. The Senate last passed a budget resolution in 2009.

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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I'm only, what, four years late. What's a date have to do with anything???

Anonymous said...

Don't most people get fired when they can't meet the qualifications the job requires. Oh - thats right it's only us the gov't. can do or not do anything and it's ok

Anonymous said...

Against the law? Isn't that impeachable? Explain why he gets away with this stuff.

Anonymous said...

A King has no rules!