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Veto strategy f
f
Impoundment strategy
Reconciliation strategy
f
fast track
national agenda
Reagan was able to dominate budget politics by compressing
process
A single package made budget cuts highly
visible —susceptible to national agenda
made it difficult for party members to go against him
Presidential budget strategies - 9/15
What are the different
budget strategies that a
president can use?
What strategies did
Reagan use?
Why did early reconcilia-
tion work for Reagan?
—o ten used as a defensive weapon that prevents Congress
rom funding at a higher level than the president
wants.
president lack line item veto would allow them to veto parti-
cular items rather than whole measure.
—have the Congress and the OMB withhold
funds from agencies
president Nixon made most use of this strategy
—a method of changing budget politics
Types o
—budget committee compiles a single, omnibus rec-
onciliation bill allowing proposed budget shifts all at one time.
—use public opinion to develop support for
policy
Outcome
Summary question (for complete lecture):
How do budgetary strategies allow presidents to implement
their political agendas?
FIG. 9.2. An example of a note-taking strategy in political science.
to make sense of the specific section of the notes. Write a question
mark in the margin and ask a friend or the instructor about the
information.
In science and math classes, it is important to identify the type of
problem in the lefthand margin and the solution of the problem in
the righthand column. For example, if your math instructor is