Identify two reasons that OMB staff often does not make excessive budget cuts to agency requests.
What will be an ideal response?
(1) An agency can go around OMB and appeal directly to the OMB director, the president or Congress and (2) OMB budget examiners may favor the agencies and become advocates of their requests
Political Science
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A)order todetonate the atomic bomb over Hiroshima and Nagasaki B)use of an executive order to desegregate the military C)advocacy for the passage of the Civil Rights Act D)continued insistence on answering his own phone
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If government represents the "rules of the game," then what does politics represent?
a. the cheaters b. the process c. the players d. the referee
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