Addressing Power Concentration: What to Do About the Office of Management and Budget? (opens in new tab)

Protecting institutional autonomy in the future requires a realignment of the power and incentive structures that produce policy outcomes. What we have, today, is largely the product of roughly 80 years of power concentration in the executive branch, which is governed by the White House and its components. In recent decades, this power has been focused primarily in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) by both statute and executive order and the National Security Council (NSC) by presiden...