maya mcguiness is our guest. she is head of a group called the committee for responsible federal budget. prior to that she worked on wall street. masters from the jfk school of government harvard. what is your committee? the committee for responsible federal budget is a phenomenal organization. is are 35 year anniversary. it has been around a long time. when i was at the kennedy school studying policy, i kept thinking that my dream would be to have a bipartisan, i'm a political independent. kind of an orphan in a city like washington. i do not know why we divide ourselves and to parties and then just be each other out. i wanted bipartisan organization that pushes for more responsibility. thisrns out there was wonderful and. the committee for a responsible federal budget. i got tapped to lead it. the board of directors is made up of all the people who have worked in government on both sides. people on the congressional budget office. they run the fed, the treasury department. the budget committee. our chairman, ou

joining us now is maya mcguiness.he is part of a group called the committee for a responsible federal budget. the budget process supposed to work on paper you go how has it worked in the past? guest: the budget process has a set council on everything we're supposed to see. number one, the present without his budget in february. so, this all comes from the 1974 budget act. for those of us who like the budget, we know the budget act. the rest of us will have no reason to have heard of it. it lays out a calendar for events. it follows the president budget which is not required to be taken at the starting point. he puts out the budget and the congress moves into action. the house and senate budget committees and put forth their own budget. how much they think about him changes with their political affiliation. with that, budget documents tend to be very political. their statements about what they want to do. they are less than realistically what will get done. senate each put forth budgets and then they have to reconcile

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