Obama Prepares His Budget

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Feb 19 2009, 9:00 am by Marc Ambinder

It will be a vitally important political document, the crucible for Obama's ideas about economic sacrifice, responsibility and post-partisanship. Next week's fiscal responsibility summit tees up Obama's first address to Congress, which tees the budget outline (to be released two days later, probably on 2/26), which tees up the schedule for the rest of the year. Big question: will it be an honest budget? If so, it'll be painful to read -- the administration would get real about war costs, for example, and the budget plan would contain deep cuts in favored Democratic programs. Will it contain specific proposals to address the growth of entitlements? (Remember, health care reform really can't take begin without a firm idea of what Congress is going to do about Medicare and Medicaid.)

Comments (1)

Angellight February 19, 2009 9:27 AM

The Republicans who refuse to take Recovery Money for their states and for their people, are like the "Grinch" who stole Christmas. The Party of No and endless negativity! They fail to see the great good the stimulus will accomplish but rather concentrate and speak on imaginary wrongs and evils, Invoking that old fear god, with portents tales of evil and woe, tales which might never happen. Clearly, a death wish for them.