Udie has a point, Congress is responsible for majority of the budget. Sure, a *few* things they don't control - but they control government spending. Last year's budget was late for approval, this meant that a lot of students couldn't be hired on or had to be let go from the federal government in the Washington, DC area.
Each agency or commission in the government has an appointed budget that it either uses all of, or doesn't use all of. It uses all of it, it's budget grows larger for the following year. It doesn't use all of it, the budget gets smaller.
Should see what happens when it comes time to report the budget useage, suddenly expensive brand new things that aren't neccesarily needed start showing up.
Can't really blame it on any single president, since it really all falls back on the entire federal government.
-SW
