Trump May Not Propose Budget This Year

Stan Collender: “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.”