That's news to the Office of Management and Budget, that reports to the President, and writes the Budget proposal. The Budget authorization bills do precisely that, authorize.
No where in Congress is the Budget written. You are for some reason desperate to exonerate Bush for the Budgets he submitted to the Congress. Of course the President and the Congress both share responsibility for the Budget: the amount of spending, and where the money is spent. In committee, the Congress acts upon the Budget
submitted by the President, written by the Office of Management and Budget, and no where in the Congress is the Budget written. In Committee, the Congress modifies, adds and subtracts from the Budget written by the President via the OMB, but be absolutely clear, the Congress does not write the Federal Budget. You may jump through any semantic hoop you like, but the Budget creation process originates with the President. If the President does not like the modifications to the Budget agreed by Congress, then he vetoes the appropriations bill. But go ahead dispute the US Senate outline of the Federal Budget process posted above. What part of "after President submits budget, Committees submit views and estimates to Budget Committees" do you not understand? Do you suppose what these guys are posting is false: "OMB's predominant mission is to assist the President in
overseeing the preparation of the federal budget and to supervise its administration in Executive Branch agencies." Mission Statement of the Office of Management and Budget, which reports to the President.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/organization/role.html. The point of this thread is the wildly out of balance budget submitted by the President. Yet RGS rather than comment on that tries to deflect and claim that the Congress authors the Budget: "You are of course aware that Congress, no the President, creates the Budget," which is patently false.
