Democrats are preparing to impose tight new restrictions on the White House's budget authority, according to The New York Times. The incoming majority is additionally readying robust scrutiny of the White House budget director, who reportedly seems to be maneuvering to place a close associate in a position to watch over how the budget office manages federal expenditures.<\/p>\n
Source:<\/strong> The New York Times \u2014 Democrats Eye Strict New Limits on White House Budget Powers<\/a>. Also reported by thehill.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n AI-assisted summary; the reporting is the source's. Read the original at the link.<\/em><\/p>\n federal budget, White House, congressional oversight, budget powers, spending<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Democrats are preparing to impose tight new restrictions on the White House’s budget authority, according to The New York Times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,2],"tags":[1056,621,1055,1057,343],"class_list":["post-917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-donald-j-trump","category-politics","tag-budget-powers","tag-congressional-oversight","tag-federal-budget","tag-spending","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}