Rep. Ryan Asks if Obama Administration Will Submit Budget This Year

Senate hasn't passed budget resolution since 2009

House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) on Wednesday asked the White House if it will once again miss the legal deadline for submitting an annual budget to Congress.

Under the law, Obama must submit a budget by the first Monday in February, but he has met the deadline only once. The annual budget submission is supposed to start a congressional budgeting process, but that has also broken down. The Senate last passed a budget resolution in 2009. 

"Given the critical importance of addressing our nation's fiscal problems, I am writing to ask whether the President will submit his budget request this year on or before February 4 as required by law," Ryan wrote in a letter to Acting Budget Director Jeff Zients. "If the Administration does not plan to meet the statutory deadline, when do you anticipate the request being made?"