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Cato Weekly Podcast • April 3, 2023 

# All the President’s Budget Assumptions 

Presidents are known to make rosy assumptions when they propose budgets to Congress. How realistic are they? Cato’s Adam Michel comments on the recent White House budget proposal.

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##### [Adam N. Michel](/people/adam-n-michel)

Director of Tax Policy Studies, Cato Institute; Former Deputy Staff Director at the US Congress Joint Economic Committee

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##### [Caleb O. Brown](/people/caleb-o-brown)

Former Director of Multimedia, Host and Executive Producer, *Cato Daily Podcast*, Cato Institute