The President's budget is required to be submitted every first Monday of February, by law. His proposal should be submitted to Congress for the next year, that begins October 1st. When the President and the Officials from …show more content…
Here are some of the most important problems, according to the textbook. Congress does not always follow what they supposed to, "the U.S. Congress does not always adhere to the established timeline for developing and approving a budget". That may cause the funds to lower for the government, they need to be provided to make sure that the government and programs are financed, for example, the military, education, health care, and highway maintance. Another problem is "When there is insufficient aggregate demand, the government can increase spending to stimulate consumer demand; job creation can be financed in times of prolonged unemployment; income transfers can be adjusted to help individuals in times of need; and a myriad of other objective can be achieved through government spending". And according to the notes, there is too much time needed in order to create a budget. There is uncontrollable budget items, which means that there are too many items to control, like "social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and other mandatory government entitlements are a part of non-discretionary spending and have led to a situation in which the budget includes a tremendous amount of uncontrollable budget …show more content…
Some of the reasons are, higher cost of living, because large amounts of debt mean higher interest rates on everything. Slower wage growth is also a reason, when an investor spends money buying government debt is less money not invested in the economy, leading to slower economic growth and lower wages. Reduced fiscal flexibility, between the year 2008 and 2015 the U.S. debts doubled from 35% to 70%, as a result of the Great Recession. Fiscal crises, is when the government doesn't record what they have spent and keeps on spending and borrowing more money, which leads to a fiscal crisis.
Non-discretionary spending is when the government spends a lot of money in the Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, these have built a big economy debt. The discretionary spending is the money Congress borrows every year for their programs, some examples are, education, highway construction, Coast Guard and space