I. Context: Budget being driven by: defense, homeland security, revitalizing economy

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Connecting Bucks with the CosmosSix Policy
Questions for the New Fiscal Year
Joel Parriott Office of Management and Budget
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1 What is the nature of the Executive Office
of the President?
EXOP includes

• Office of the Vice President
• Chief of Staff
• Council of Economic Advisers
• Council on Environmental Quality
• Domestic Policy Council
• National Economic Council
• National Security Council
• Office of Homeland Security
• Office of Management and Budget
• Office of National Drug Control Policy
• Office of Science Technology Policy
• Office of the United States Trade Representative

Cabinet rank members
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OMB Structure

• Political
• Director Deputy Directors
• Program Associate Directors
• Run the RMOs (next slide)
• Career
• Division Associate Directors
• Branch Chiefs
• Program Examiners

There are also important statutory support
offices.
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OMB Resource Management Office Jurisdiction

• Natural Resource Programs
• DOE, NASA, NSF, USDA, EPA
• Human Resource Programs
• NIH, DoEd
• General Government Programs
• DHS, NOAA, NIST
• National Security Programs
• DOD, NNSA

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2 How is the Presidents Budget sausage made
each year?

• Agency internal reviews March-August
• OMB sends guidance to agencies May/June
• Agencies brief OMB September-October
• OMB internal reviews October-November
• OMB response (passback) Thanksgiving
• Appeal and settling process Early December-Early
  January
• Budget numbers text locked January
• Budget sent to Congress Early February

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3 Are there different colors of money?
OSTPs Mike Holland (as quoted in Science) It
helps to think of the government as an insurance
company with an army.
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Federal 2004 Budget(2.2 Trillion in Outlays)
Homeland Security
Federal ST60 billion (15)
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4 What are the Administrations priorities for
the 2004 Budget?

• Making our people safe
• Strengthening our economy

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The Unwelcome Return of Deficits
Surplus()/Deficit(-) in billions of dollars
Education Veterans Homeownership Global AIDS
Initiative Health Care for the Uninsured Other
Priorities
NB Does not include 79 billion Supplemental
Bill for War on Terrorism
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The 2004 Budget Increase Reflects the Nations
Priorities
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The Big FivePercent Change in ST Budgets
Defense
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5 What about the M in OMB?
From Examiner Training Materials The fact that
a program serves a needy population is
immaterial to you, if the service is not
effective, is not adequately or efficiently
provided, or is not worth the investment.
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Government should be results-orientedguided not
by process but by performance. George W. Bush

• Most sweeping assessment of federal programs -
  234 programs (494 billion)
• 20 of programs to be added each year
• Introduced this year Performance Rating
  Assessment Tool (PART)
• Of the 234 programs, 32 were RD.

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Not Just How much but How wellRatings of Sample
RD Programs
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6 Are there policy issues at exceedingly small
dollar amounts?

• Priorities, priorities, priorities
• If the science community doesnt set them,
  someone else will.
• OSTP-OMB Guidance Memo
• International context
• Interagency cooperation