President Donald Trump’s budget proposal will likely be up to three months late, the top House Republican appropriator told reporters Tuesday, as new White House staffers scramble to put the administration’s spending priorities in writing.
House Appropriations Chairman Tom Cole (R-Okla.) told reporters he doesn’t expect to receive the budget request “before later April to early May,” adding that the White House hadn’t yet told him a specific date.
The expected delay will set back House Republicans’ plans to write their government-funding bills for fiscal 2026, which starts Oct. 1 of this year. Cole told colleagues in a series of ...