…of arithmetic accessible to the typical sixth grader, you would have been flabbergasted by the gall. I laid out the numbers here, but the claim from Daniels’ OMB was basically…

…Fix and to Social Security Reports and to CBO & OMB Documents and Reports. Plus others. In all cases the documents should be viewable, linkable, and downloadable even as there…

I didn’t think they could shock me. Then I read that the Trump OMB made a $2,000,000,000,000 arithmetic mistake Jon Chait explains “One of the ways Donald Trump’s budget claims…

…somehow has not made a sufficiently definitive statement to keep his former Freedom Caucus big cheese OMB director, Mulvaney, from opining that Mnuchin is an out of it New York…

…static (defined as unchanged base)…” you give the game away. “Static” has never—not in OTA-land, JTC-land, CBO-land, or OMB-land—been defined as an “unchanged [tax] base”. OK but wages and goods…

…help low income children and families. OMB Deputy Director Russ Vought had this to say: “Rescinding these funds will have no impact on the program. At some point Congress will…

…lying but let’s note so are the OMB Director and the Treasury Secretary as well as Speaker Paul Ryan: He was basically lying to us hoping the public would be…

…Ukraine was mysteriously held up by the OMB until April 2018 when then prosecutor general Yurii Lutsenko froze the investigation of Paul Manafort. This isn’t a scoop. Both events were…

…(“on loan” from the National Institutes of Health to OMB), Larry Summers (head of the National Economic Council) and Bob Kocher (a member of Summers’ staff). These men were passionate…

…ongoing week by week Continuing Resolutions holding that off, the current one expiring on Monday.  It contains mostly things approved in the budget sent officially from Trump’s OMB to Congress,…