Optimizing OMB: Response to The President's Budget as a Source of Agency Policy Control

摘要

Professor Pasachoff attempts to reverse the legal literature's inattentiveness to the budget's existential tie to the administrative state and OMB's central role in the annual process surrounding the budget. The treatment starts an important conversation about how 'We the People' might strengthen the processes and institutions we use to determine how we tax ourselves, pay off our debts, and invest in our future. Taking this hard look makes more sense now than ever before: the atomized nature of our administrative state, the centrifugal force accentuating the effects of atomization, and the increasingly demanding task of harmonization make OMB's task today both more difficult and more important.