There’s No Machine-Readable Government Org Chart

By Jim Harper

At a recent Cato event on transparency, I emphasized that there is no federal government “organization chart” published in a way computers can use. Here’s what I mean: Appendix C of the Office of Management and Budget’s Circular A-11 is the White House’s definitive public listing of agencies and bureaus, along with their OMB and [...]

There’s No Machine-Readable Government Org Chart is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog

Chart of the Week: U.S. Presidents Ranked by Budget Deficits

Over the past 50 years, 10 U.S. presidents have made annual budget requests to Congress, projecting deficits both big and small. But no other president compares to Barack Obama when it comes to the size and scale of the current budget deficit facing the United States. The country is facing an 8.3 percent estimated average national deficit of a two-term Obama administration — the biggest of the past 50 years. By comparison, the current estimate for Obama is nearly double the percentage under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush — and … More