Posted on 01/14/2013 6:29:45 PM PST by george76
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.
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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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...has informed House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) that it will miss the legal deadline for sending a budget...Either shut everything down and take the blame, or extend the deadline and get something no one will vote for, and take the blame.
Since the President and his staff can’t do a budget...I’d just admit to that and let Congress run the budget business by themselves.
Lincoln was so wrong.
That’s what happens when you replace a rule of law with a rule of lawyers.
Gee, what a shock.
...and what will the Republicans do? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.
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