Yet the budget, and the few details that leaked before its release, were greeted mostly by shrugs -- not least by the president himself. While past presidents used the release of their annual spending plans as an opportunity to lay out a short- and long-term vision, and to influence subsequent negotiations on Capitol Hill, Trump has taken the lack of interest in budgets to new lows, reflecting his own disinterest in policy details, his administration’s thin staffing and its overall ambivalence about the nitty-gritty of policy-making.

Source: Los Angeles Times March 11, 2019 16:04 UTC