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United States Office of Management and Budget

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The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is a body within the Executive Office of the President of the United States which is tasked with coordinating United States Federal agencies. A "stop-and-think shop," it is a senior management team of the White House. The OMB performs this coordination by gathering and filtering budget requests, and by issuing circulars which the agencies must then implement as regulations. The current director is Joshua Bolten.

The OMB was originally set up by Warren Harding as the Bureau of the Budget. It was established in its present form during the Nixon administration: the first Office included Roy Ash (head), Paul O'Neill (assistant director), Fred Malek (deputy director) and Frank Zarb (associate director) and two dozen others. By 2002, over 120 people were part of the Office.

Richard Darman later served as director.

Jim Lynn was the head of the OMB under Gerald Ford, but left to head Aetna Insurance.

In 2001, George W. Bush selected Mitch Daniels to direct the OMB, subsequently replaced by Joshua Bolten.

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