Expert blasts White House's 'highly unusual' budget move

The White House is refusing to release its federal budget proposal, an Office of Management and Budget official confirmed Thursday in a move experts have decried as “extraordinarily unusual,” and potentially illegal.

Speaking with The Washington Post, Charles Kieffer, who worked in the OMB for decades under Democrat-run administrations, said that he had never seen the office refuse to publish its budget proposal this far beyond a February deadline as mandated by a 1974 law.

“This is...