Editing Office of Management and Budget (section)

==History==
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The '''Bureau of the Budget''', OMB's predecessor, was established in 1921 as a part of the [[United States Department of the Treasury|Department of the Treasury]] by the [[Budget and Accounting Act of 1921]], which President [[Warren G. Harding]] signed into law. The Bureau of the Budget was moved to the [[Executive Office of the President of the United States|Executive Office of the President]] in 1939 and was run by [[Harold D. Smith]] during the government's rapid expansion of spending during [[World War II]]. James L. Sundquist, a staffer at the Bureau of the Budget, called the relationship between the president and the bureau extremely close and subsequent bureau directors have been politicians, not public administrators.<ref>Oral History Interview with James L. Sundquist, Washington, D.C., July 15, 1963, by Charles T. Morrissey, {{cite web| url = https://www.trumanlibrary.org/oralhist/sundquis.htm| title = James L. Sundquist Oral History Interview {{!}} Harry S. Truman}}</ref>

The bureau was reorganized into the Office of Management and Budget in 1970 during the [[Presidency of Richard Nixon|Nixon administration]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-84/pdf/STATUTE-84-Pg2085.pdf#page=1 |title=84 Stat. 2085 |publisher=govinfo.com |access-date=2020-10-20 |archive-date=2020-10-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201022050655/https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-84/pdf/STATUTE-84-Pg2085.pdf#page=1 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The first OMB included [[Roy Ash]] (head), [[Paul O'Neill (cabinet member)|Paul O'Neill]] (assistant director), [[Fred Malek]] (deputy director), [[Frank Zarb]] (associate director) and two dozen others.

In the 1990s, OMB was reorganized to remove the distinction between management staff and budgetary staff by combining the dual roles into each given program examiner within the Resource Management Offices.<ref>{{cite web |title=OMB Organization Chart |url=http://www.obamawhitehouse.gov/omb/assets/about_omb/omb_org_chart.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170206104925/http://www.obamawhitehouse.gov/omb/assets/about_omb/omb_org_chart.pdf |archive-date=2017-02-06 |url-status=live |publisher=Office of Management and Budget }}</ref>