{"id":16951,"date":"2013-01-14T18:58:15","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T23:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=16951"},"modified":"2013-01-14T18:58:15","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T23:58:15","slug":"obama-misses-budget-deadline-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/16951\/obama-misses-budget-deadline-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Misses Budget Deadline, Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/on-the-money\/budget\/276969-obama-budget-delayed-again-white-house-tells-paul-ryan\" target=\"_blank\">The Hill<\/a> provides the <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/images\/stories\/news\/2013\/01_january\/ltr_to_hbc_chair_ryan_on_budget.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">text of a letter<\/a> sent by the White House Office of Management and Budget to House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI).<\/p>\n<p>In it, the OMB\u2019s Deputy Director for Management blames the late resolution of the \u201cfiscal cliff\u201d negotiations for causing the White House to violate the law by missing the February 4 deadline for submitting a budget to Congress.<\/p>\n<p>But as The Hill notes, that excuse is nonsense when considered in light of the Obama Administration\u2019s record on budgets:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Left out of that tidy little summation is the fact that the House Republicans have never failed to pass a budget resolution during the entire time Obama has been president.<\/p>\n<p>The failure of Washington to \u201cwork\u201d in the Obama Era is not a failure of substance; both parties are relatively clear about their policy visions.\u00a0 What\u2019s grinding the system to a halt is the liberal disregard of legal procedures like statutorily defined deadlines.\u00a0 Throw out the rules, and suddenly no one knows how to play the game.\u00a0 As I <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/16916\/amend-budget-act-not-constitution-to-cut-spending\/ \" target=\"_blank\">said last week<\/a>, unless the budget process is amended to enact meaningful punishment on parties who violate it, nothing else is likely to change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hill provides the text of a letter sent by the White House Office of Management and Budget to House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI). In it, the OMB\u2019s Deputy Director for Management blames the late resolution of the \u201cfiscal cliff\u201d negotiations for causing the White House to violate the law by missing the February [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[143,70,84,3998,60,802,1447,44],"class_list":["post-16951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-budget","tag-congress","tag-deadline","tag-omb","tag-paul-ryan","tag-reform","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16951"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16955,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16951\/revisions\/16955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}