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progress2k12nbynd

(221 posts) Thu Feb 23, 2012, 06:11 PM Feb 2012

Question - Congress, Presidents and Budgets

I've heard this "Democrats don't even know what they're spending because they haven't done a budget in 3 years" crap constantly (up until PBO's just recently released budget obviously) but just about all google search results on the topic are from right-wing forums.

Can anybody give me a simple explanation of who is expected to do the budget, when, and if it's true that we haven't budgeted the last few years, what would be the reasoning?

Thanks in advance.