DEFM 312 Assignment 6.docx DEFM 312 Presidential and Congress Budget Development Proc

DEFM  312  Assignment  6.docx  DEFM 312  Presidential and Congress Budget Development Process  American Military University  DEFM 312: Defense Budget Development and Execution  Introduction  The annual budget is a crucial step in the daily operations of our country, without a carefully thought out system in place to control spending the national debt would have grown exponentially past its current state of only $28.3 trillion not to say that is a sustainable amount of debt to be caring as a nation.  But without the budget in place every year to place monetary controls on what we as a nation can the proverbial bubble would have burst by now and the dollar worth nothing.  In order to prevent that the President and Congress come together every year in order to build a budget which is broken into these 5 steps: President submits budget request to Congress, the House and Senate each pass a budget resolution, House and Sena