* A budget isn’t necessary. Budget resolutions don’t have the force of law. Appropriations bills are where spending is allocated. While the budget provides a long-term framework for spending and revenue, lawmakers don’t actually have to pass one. While the Senate is legally required to pass a budget, there is no penalty for not doing so."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-...
They have promised to present a budget for next year.

He has proposed a budget every year, no word parsing. It is up to Congress to PASS a budget, not the President.

pharm....I like how you parce words...he hasn't had a budget....yes, he hasn't had a budget that could get past his democrats in the senate EVER! So where IS his budget? It's not, there is none.

You said he hasn`t had a budget, and he has proposed one every year. He does not get to vote on it also.
You are still wrong.

pharm...Obamas democrats in the senate voted resoundingly against his budget his first year and haven't even brought it up since then. So much for the importance of working with a budget.

Just like wislady, wrong again. Proposed a budget every year, and will do it again for next(2014) year.

should be..."what difference does it make"

pharm....what difference doesn't make....the president hasn't had a budget in how many years? If he wanted to have a say where the monies go he sure hasn't indicated that.

It does exist!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYzjMs-6M...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYzjMs-6M......
Hypocrite!

"Except as otherwise provided, the same percentage sequestration shall apply to all programs, projects, and activities within a budget account (with programs, projects, and activities as delineated in the appropriation Act or accompanying report for the relevant fiscal year covering that account, or for accounts not included in appropriation Acts, as delineated in the most recently submitted President’s Budget)."

That means the cuts are pretty much across-the-board, which means the sequester "is indeed indiscriminate," said Ronald M. Levin, a law professor at Washington University School of Law.

John F. Cooney, a Washington lawyer who led the legal team that implemented a federal sequester under President Ronald Reagan in 1986, concurs.

In a column published in November 2012, he wrote that sequestration requires a "uniform percentage reduction on all covered programs — good and bad alike — without differentiation. … The President has no discretion in implementing the reductions. He must follow Congressional directives and may not, for example, shift required reductions from Treasury to Agriculture."
politifact.com
As usual, wislady is wrong again.

So people are angry that if nothing happens $85 Billion that we never had to begin with won't be spent with interest? Maybe we should do this every year until the idiots in Washington get the picture that you only spend what you have and not just keep growing the national debt to keep everyone happy!

Let it happen! We will find out we can live if the budgets are cut!

Too bad that while everyone was complaining about the President golfing over President's weekend, Congress not in session for the entire rest of the week.

Yes Wislady, the sequester is completly Obama's fault. Congress holds no responsiblity. It's that evil POTUS that is completely at fault.

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OBAMA-ECONOMY: 4th quarter growth: 0.1%.

Obama's sequester....the potus has the ability to chose where the cuts are. America needs a leader, not a campaigner.