White House Tries to Flip Script on Budget Process

“A White House freeze on potentially hundreds of billions of dollars in government ‘financial assistance,’ set to go into effect at 5 p.m. Tuesday, would upend decades of federal budget policy, temporarily slamming the brakes on thousands of programs both in the U.S. and around the world,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“And that appears to be exactly the point.”

“Some of President Trump’s top advisers think the U.S. budget process has become so contorted—allowing the budget to become so bloated—that they need to wrest parts of it from Congress’s control to make changes that are long overdue.”