when is the president's budget submitted to congress
United States budget process
The Budget and Accounting Act of 1921 requires the President to submit the budget to Congress for each fiscal year , which is the 12 - month period beginning on October 1 and ending on September 30 of the next calendar year . The current federal budget law ( 31 U.S.C. § 1105 ( a ) ) requires that the President submit the budget between the first Monday in January and the first Monday in February . In recent times , the President 's budget submission has been issued in the first week of February . The budget submission has been delayed , however , in some new presidents ' first year when the previous president belonged to a different party . The 2014 United States federal budget was not submitted by the President until April 10 , 2013 due to negotiations over the United States fiscal cliff and implementation of the sequester cuts mandated by the Budget Control Act of 2011 . ( The House had already prepared its budget proposal on March 21 , and the Senate proposed a budget on March 23 . ) 
The Budget and Accounting Act of 1921 requires the President to submit the budget to Congress for each fiscal year , which is the 12 - month period beginning on October 1 and ending on September 30 of the next calendar year . The current federal budget law ( 31 U.S.C. § 1105 ( a ) ) requires that the President submit the budget between the first Monday in January and the first Monday in February . In recent times , the President 's budget submission has been issued in the first week of February . The budget submission has been delayed , however , in some new presidents ' first year when the previous president belonged to a different party . The 2014 United States federal budget was not submitted by the President until April 10 , 2013 due to negotiations over the United States fiscal cliff and implementation of the sequester cuts mandated by the Budget Control Act of 2011 . ( The House had already prepared its budget proposal on March 21 , and the Senate proposed a budget on March 23 . )
The current federal budget law (31 U.S.C. § 1105 (a)) requires that the President submit the budget between the first Monday in January and the first Monday in February, however, the budget submission has been delayed in recent years.
The current federal budget law ( 31 U.S.C. § 1105 ( a ) ) requires that the President submit the budget between the first Monday in January and the first Monday in February . The budget submission has been delayed , however , in some new presidents ' first year when the previous president belonged to a different party .