The executive branch
Office of Management and Budget
The President's budget and regulatory control center. It writes the President's budget request, apportions appropriated funds, and reviews significant agency rules.
In full
OMB sits in the Executive Office of the President and is the most powerful office most people have never heard of. It assembles the annual budget request, distributes appropriated money to agencies through apportionment, clears agency testimony and legislative positions, and, through its OIRA office, reviews major regulations before they are published. Very little leaves the executive branch without passing through it.
Also written as: OMB, OIRA
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