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The United States Federal Budget for fiscal year 2016 began as a budget proposed by President Barack Obama to fund government operations for October 1, 2015 – September 30, 2016. The requested budget was submitted to the 114th Congress on February 2, 2015. The government was initially funded through a series of three temporary continuing ...
The U.S. budget deficit is expected to grow to $590 billion in fiscal year 2016 due to slower than expected growth in revenues and higher spending for programs including Social Security and ...
White House Director of Budget Policy White House Director of Legislative Affairs Marc Short: July 20, 2018 [192] February 2019: Returned to White House as chief of staff for Vice President Mike Pence. [193] Shahira Knight: July 2018 June 17, 2019 Decided to depart as cooperation with Congress had taken a back seat to election politics. [194]
President Trump’s new budget director says he’s ... with the White House about making cuts to the popular retirement programs. ... or Medicaid," said Trump in 2016. White House Chief of Staff ...
Budget Chairman Senator Mike Enzi (R-Wyoming) noted on the Senate floor, "According to Senate records from President Jimmy Carter to President Obama, the longest it has ever taken to approve a first budget director for a new president was one week – one week." [249] On February 16, 2017, the Senate confirmed Mulvaney, 51–49. [250]
A White House official said the compromise deal would protect Social Security and Medicare beneficiaries from cuts.
The White House chief of staff is the head of the Executive Office of the President of the United States, a cabinet position in the federal government of the United States. The chief of staff is a political appointee of the president of the United States who does not require Senate confirmation , and who serves at the pleasure of the President.
Trump wants Congress to shell out $1.5 billion for his promised border wall with Mexico in the current fiscal year.