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...crunch the numbers; next week, on Aug. 27, the Congressional Budget Office will send out its bean-counters with a result the Democrats hope will put Bush?s first budget exactly where they want it: In the red. But while the CBO?s numbers may vary slightly from the OMB?s, in leaky Washington it?s a good bet that Mitch Daniels? accountants had the CBO?s numbers in mind when they came up with that extra $4.3 billion last week...
...Back to Wednesday for a moment: The White House?s private accounting firm, otherwise known as the Office of Management and Budget, releases its budget numbers, which are expected to confirm the hair?s-breadth $1 billion non-Social-Security surplus that the OMB?s number-crunchers salvaged with some fancy accounting tricks last week. (Bush gives a working-vacation preview from Missouri on Tuesday, which will be a garbled salvo to the Democrats trying to sacrifice his tax cut on the surplus altar...
...anything ? to this job," he told the Wall Street Journal in a profile published Wednesday, "maybe it?s an ability to think about how a product, whether it?s Prozac or a president?s proposal, is marketed." (Early on in the budget wrangle, Daniels even tried to get the OMB phones to play the Rolling Stones?"You Can?t Always Get What You Want" to callers on hold...
School of Public Health (SPH) Professor for Policy and Decision Sciences John D. Graham will serve as the administrator for the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), part of the White House’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB...
...binding, general-principles kind of way - a $1.35 trillion tax cut and a discretionary-spending growth cap at 4.9 percent. Head Senate Democrat Tom Daschle claimed Wednesday that Bush "was dragged kicking and screaming" into the negotiated deal, but the White House's man on the scene, OMB chief Mitch Daniels, may have been closer to the truth...