Budget ? What Budget?

“On or after the first Monday in January but not later than the first Monday in February of each year, the President shall submit a budget of the United States Government for the following fiscal year.”
-- Chapter 11 of Title 31 of the United States Code, enacted as the Congressional Budget Act of 1974.

The first Monday in February has come and gone and the budget is not in hand. This is the norm for this president as he has missed the deadline for the previous two years. Instead, he has informed the Senate he would be "late." Don't be surprised if it's not forthcoming at all. The last budget president Obama presented didn't garner a single vote - Democrat or Republican because it was overrun with so much spending neither party could stomach it. 

CARTOON BY CHIP BOK'S BOKBLUSTER

As for the Senate not passing a budget as required by law, Majority Leader Harry Reid has not done so in four years. He doesn't want us to see what's in it, knowing taxpayers would revolt.

It appears both the president and the Democratic leader of the Senate have a similar disdain for the law and Constitution....both be damned. They are above it....so they think.









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