Russell Vought, Office of Management and Budget director, testifies June 25 during a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on the rescissions package in Washington. (Mariam Zuhaib/AP)
White House Office of Management and Budget chief Russell Vought said Thursday that it “wasn’t in our interest” to release a federal budget proposal, explaining a decision that defied decades of bipartisan tradition and that some experts say broke the law.
At a Christian Science Monitor breakfast with reporters, Vought said the administration opted not to release a budget plan because it would have been confusing to do so during debate over the Republican tax law, which was approved by Congress earlier this month. Under a 1974 law, the president is required to submit a budget to Congress no later than the first Monday in February, although there is typically a delay for the first year of a president’s term. The GOP’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” tax law is separate from annual spending legislation, which the budget usually addresses.
A White House budget plan traditionally includes projections of economic data that can prove unflattering to the administration or provoke controversy. It details, for example, the White House’s estimates of inflation, deficits, federal debt, gross domestic product and other similar statistics. The Trump administration has yet to release those numbers, though the budget office sent Congress a roughly 1,200-page “appendix” to guide the appropriations process, or negotiations with Congress over the portion of annual federal spending known as discretionary spending.
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