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The Eisenhower Executive Office Building at night. In 1937, the Brownlow Committee, which was a presidentially commissioned panel of political science and public administration experts, recommended sweeping changes to the executive branch of the U.S. federal government, including the creation of the Executive Office of the President.
The earlier website during the presidency of Bill Clinton in 1995 The modern website following the first inauguration of Barack Obama in 2009. whitehouse.gov (also simply known as wh.gov) is the official website of the White House and is managed by the Office of Digital Strategy. It was launched in 1994 by the Clinton administration. [1]
The White House Office was established in the Executive Office of the President by Reorganization Plan 1 of 1939 and Executive Order 8248 to provide assistance to the president in the performance of activities incident to his immediate office. [3]
The core White House staff positions and most Executive Office positions are generally not required to be confirmed by the Senate. The positions that require Senate confirmation include: the director of the Office of Management and Budget , the chair and members of the Council of Economic Advisers , and the United States trade representative .
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is the largest office [a] within the Executive Office of the President of the United States (EOP). OMB's most prominent function is to produce the president's budget, [2] but it also examines agency programs, policies, and procedures to see whether they comply with the president's policies and coordinates inter-agency policy initiatives.
To manage the growing federal bureaucracy, presidents have gradually surrounded themselves with many layers of staff, who were eventually organized into the Executive Office of the President of the United States. Within the Executive Office, the president's innermost layer of aides, and their assistants, are located in the White House Office.
The White House cabinet secretary is a high-ranking position within the Executive Office of the President of the United States. [2] The White House cabinet secretary is the head of the Office of Cabinet Affairs (OCA) within the White House Office [2] and the primary liaison between the president of the United States and the Cabinet departments and agencies.
The United States Digital Service is a technology unit [1] [2] housed within the Executive Office of the President of the United States. It provides consultation services to federal agencies on information technology. It seeks to improve and simplify digital service, and to improve federal websites. It was launched on August 11, 2014.