{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://cline.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=1137", "Rep. Ben Cline Leads Colleagues in Letter to Biden Demanding Answers on Ignoring Budget Deadline for Third Straight Year", "2023-01-30", "2023", "2023-01", "Republican", "House", "VA", "Ben Cline", "C001118", "cline.house.gov", "cline", "https://cline.house.gov/news/documentquery.aspx?DocumentTypeID=27", "scraper", "Today, Congressman Ben Cline (R-VA), Chairman of the Republican Study Committee\u2019s (RSC) Budget and Spending Task Force, led his colleagues in letter a to President Joe Biden demanding answers and accountability on the administration\u2019s Fiscal Year 2024 budget following reports that it will not be submitted to Congress before the statutory deadline of the first Monday in February. This will be the third year in a row that the President has missed the submission deadline, and will likely delay the beginning of the Congressional budget process.\n\nThe letter was cosigned by RSC Chairman Kevin Hern (R-OK), Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-WI), Rep. August Pfluger (R-TX), Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC), Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL), Rep. Josh Brecheen (R-OK), Rep. Pat Fallon (R-TX), Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA). Rep. Michael Cloud (R-TX) , Rep. Bob Good (R-VA), Rep. Beth Van Duyne (R-TX), Rep. Roger Williams (R-TX), and Rep. Eric Burlison (R-MO).\n\nRead more in the letter HERE or below.\n\nJanuary 30, 2023\n\nThe Honorable Joseph R. Biden\n\nPresident of the United States\n\n1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW\n\nWashington, DC 20500\n\nDear Mr. President,\n\nWe write to express our concerns regarding reports that your administration may miss the statutory deadline for submitting a Presidential Budget to Congress for the third year in a row and has no intent to offer a balanced budget.\n\nThe American people have spoken and made it abundantly clear that the United States must no longer be governed in a state of crisis or brinkmanship. They expect their duly elected leaders to take the initiative to ensure that the vital functions of government are managed responsibly and in a timely manner.\n\nThe urgency of our Nation\u2019s fiscal crisis is unprecedented. It is imperative that we move quickly to address skyrocketing inflation, a crippling $31.5 trillion in national debt, and the impending insolvency of our Nation\u2019s major trust funds.\n\nWith the induction of a new Congress, Democrats and Republicans must seize this opportunity to fix our Nation\u2019s unsustainable financial trajectory. That process must begin with your submission of a balanced Presidential Budget to Congress.\n\nWe the undersigned call on your administration to respond to the following questions.\n\nWill your administration submit a budget by the statutory deadline? If not, when does your administration plan to submit a budget to Congress?\n\nWill your administration\u2019s budget balance in the ten-year budget window? If not, do you not believe the American public deserves a responsible, balanced budget, that does not rely on tax hikes?\n\nWhy is your administration unable to meet this annual budget proposal obligation?\n\nAs the deadline rapidly approaches for you to submit your Presidential Budget, we ask that you do your job so that we in Congress can begin ours.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T23:08:17Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://cline.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=1137"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.0150652378797531, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}