# Trump may not submit a budget next year **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 4, 2016, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-may-not-submit-a-budget-next-year/773843 "2016-12-04T18:01:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2016, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-may-not-submit-a-budget-next-year/773843/21 "2016-12-04T19:54:58Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Thanks! I prefer it cut corner to corner, so there are little triangles. > > … You got it, sweetie! 🙂 Anything for you, pumpkin. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2016, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-may-not-submit-a-budget-next-year/773843/22 "2016-12-04T20:53:19Z")
Wow, two whole hours and none of our resident apologists have come in to call us all crybabies. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2016, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-may-not-submit-a-budget-next-year/773843/23 "2016-12-04T21:03:53Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Wow, two whole hours and none of our resident apologists have come in to call us all crybabies. “Your thread is very important to us. All our apologists are busy with other threads at the moment. Your thread will be taken by the next available apologist. The next apologist will be available in …17 minutes… Please hold.” _tinny Muzak_ ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2016, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-may-not-submit-a-budget-next-year/773843/24 "2016-12-04T21:03:59Z")
Simple, Obama submits a budget with $0 for all cabinet members and political appointees for the coming year. That’d fix old hamster fists. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2016, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-may-not-submit-a-budget-next-year/773843/25 "2016-12-04T21:56:11Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Wow, two whole hours and none of our resident apologists have come in to call us all crybabies. They’re all on a double secret conference call. Plotting how to counter our positions with logic, reason, and facts. Could take a while to put something together. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2016, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-may-not-submit-a-budget-next-year/773843/26 "2016-12-04T22:09:13Z")
> [@ganthet](#): > > But continuing resolutions would leave Trump unable to build his wall or hire more Customs and Border Protection/Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel and immigration court personnel that would enable them just to get out of the massive current backlog of deportation cases they have now, let alone add millions to it. > > Or fund any trillion dollar infrastructure plan, or increase the size of the military, or… Huh? Do we have any experts here? My impression is that continuing resolutions can either increase or decrease spending levels–or leave them the same. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2016, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-may-not-submit-a-budget-next-year/773843/27 "2016-12-04T22:10:51Z")
Budget? We don’t need no stinkin’ budget! What…somebody had to say it. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2016, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-may-not-submit-a-budget-next-year/773843/28 "2016-12-04T22:17:13Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > Budget? We don’t need no stinkin’ budget! > > What…somebody had to say it. From the OP > [@ThelmaLou](#): > > … > Trump already dominates the news every time he urps out a tweet. _Don’t need no stinkin’ budget to make the news – the whole world is already talkin’ about me all day every day!_ > > … ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2016, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-may-not-submit-a-budget-next-year/773843/29 "2016-12-04T22:18:37Z")
> [@PastTense](#): > > Huh? Do we have any experts here? My impression is that continuing resolutions can either increase or decrease spending levels–or leave them the same. But can they add new items? This is for the 2018 budget, Obama already submitted the 2017 budget which sure as hell doesn’t have any of Trump’s idiocies in it. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2016, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-may-not-submit-a-budget-next-year/773843/30 "2016-12-04T22:20:47Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > From the OP :smack: tl;dr ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2016, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-may-not-submit-a-budget-next-year/773843/31 "2016-12-04T22:24:59Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Wow, two whole hours and none of our resident apologists have come in to call us all crybabies. Doesn’t matter. It’ll be Obama’s fault, and Hill’s too. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2016, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-may-not-submit-a-budget-next-year/773843/32 "2016-12-04T22:30:15Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > Doesn’t matter. It’ll be Obama’s fault, and Hill’s too. January 21 2017 Trump tweet: “Unemployment down to 5% thanks to my fantastic policies. You’re welcome America!” January 2018 Trump tweet: “Unemployment rate of 15% not good. Obama must take the blame. Sad!” And you know what? Trump’s base will eat this up with a spoon and say “mmm mmm good!” ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2016, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-may-not-submit-a-budget-next-year/773843/33 "2016-12-04T22:31:06Z")
No offense **ThelmaLou** , but you’re veering dangerously close to becoming the new **Reeder**. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2016, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-may-not-submit-a-budget-next-year/773843/34 "2016-12-04T22:43:26Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > No offense **ThelmaLou** , but you’re veering dangerously close to becoming the new **Reeder**. No offense taken. Did s/he find the Snark and softly and suddenly vanish away? ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2016, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-may-not-submit-a-budget-next-year/773843/35 "2016-12-04T22:50:31Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Did s/he find the Snark and softly and suddenly vanish away? He was banned in 2005. He passed away in 2013. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2016, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-may-not-submit-a-budget-next-year/773843/36 "2016-12-04T22:55:19Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > But can they add new items? This is for the 2018 budget, Obama already submitted the 2017 budget which sure as hell doesn’t have any of Trump’s idiocies in it. See the last continuing resolution: > [@](#): > > The short-term continuing resolution (CR) package includes the FY2017 Military Construction and Veterans Affairs (MilCon-VA) Appropriations Bill and also provides $1.1 billion in supplemental funding to combat the Zika virus. The bill also makes $500 million available to address immediate disaster recovery needs in Louisiana and other states. > **[Senate Appropriations Committee Releases Short-Term Continuing Resolution |...](https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/news/majority/senate-appropriations-committee-releases-short-term-continuing-resolution)** > > United States Senate Committee on Appropriations Note they can always do Supplemental appropriations. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2016, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-may-not-submit-a-budget-next-year/773843/37 "2016-12-04T23:03:02Z")
> [@PastTense](#): > > See the last continuing resolution: > > [Majority News Release | Majority News Releases | News | United States Senate Committee on Appropriations](http://www.appropriations.senate.gov/news/majority/senate-appropriations-committee-releases-short-term-continuing-resolution) > > Note they can always do Supplemental appropriations. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2016, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-may-not-submit-a-budget-next-year/773843/38 "2016-12-05T00:11:30Z")
For those following at home, the Presidents budget request is a fundamental process to the operation of government. Failing to submit one is more or less like your body telling you: “You know what? I’ve kind of had enough of cellular mitosis. It never makes the news. I’m just not going to do it this year.” ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2016, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-may-not-submit-a-budget-next-year/773843/39 "2016-12-05T00:23:00Z")
Since it is Congress that passes the spending and tax bills, does it really matter if the President sends a budget? Doesn’t Congress just ignore it? ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2016, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-may-not-submit-a-budget-next-year/773843/40 "2016-12-05T00:32:35Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > He was banned in 2005. He passed away in 2013. Jesus. That long ago? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-may-not-submit-a-budget-next-year/773843.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-may-not-submit-a-budget-next-year/773843.md?page=3)