While the release of presidential budgets were once red-letter days on the Washington calendar, increasing polarization has sapped the events of their former gravity
U.S. President Donald Trump gestures during a rally at El Paso County Coliseum in El Paso, Tex., on Feb. 11, 2019.When President Donald Trump proposes his 2020 federal budget on Monday, official Washington will likely have a quick look, shrug and move on, marking another stage in the quiet decay of the U.S. government’s traditional policy-making processes.
Last year’s budget weighed in at a whopping $4.4-trillion. It was not balanced and was panned for relying on rosy economic projections and for not doing enough to cut the federal deficit. The Democratic-ruled House of Representatives and Republican-majority Senate also are unlikely to agree on a joint budget resolution of their own. Instead, they probably will stumble forward until fiscal 2019 ends and a spending deadline arrives on Oct. 1, forcing them to produce a last-minute deal or face another government shutdown.
The White House disagreed. The budget process helps the administration set priorities for agencies for the year ahead and lays down a marker on issues, a senior administration official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. “What we have right now is essentially government by automatic pilot and that’s not healthy,” Moore said, describing the cycle of last-minute massive omnibus spending bills agreed on only when deadlines loom.
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