Myth- The President controls the US budget?

Myth- The President controls the US budget?

Matthew Jones (Political Science Instructor) gives expert video advice on: Myth- The President controls the US budget?; Myth- The President can abolish the IRS?; Myth- The President is responsible for the economy? and more...

The President proposes a budget because he is in charge of the administration, the bureaucracy. So different departments, Department of Education, Department of Environmental Protection and other things, request a certain amount of money for their budget. The President is the one who is in charge of the bureaucracy so he can say things like, "No, I don't think you need that money, so we're not going to have that, we're not going to have that". But the President's budget is really only a suggestion technically, to the House of Representatives, who can then go and say, "Well, you know what you didn't give enough money to the EPA so we're going to increase the EPA's budget by double, right, and then that's what they pass. So then the President has to come back and he either signs or vetoes the budget. So there's kind of a game between the House of Representatives and the President.