This Tuesday, the president will release his Fiscal Year 2018 budget request. The title on the cover reads “A New Foundation for American Greatness.” But it’s what’s inside that’s more important. What people will see there is something that has been missing from Washington for a long time: “A Taxpayer First Budget.”
It starts with two principles. First: our government works for the American people, not the other way around. Second: our government must be more efficient, more effective and more accountable to the hardworking taxpayers who fund it.