<Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> Office of Management and Budget </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> "2016 2018" </Td> </Tr> <P> The 2017 United States federal budget is the United States federal budget for fiscal year 2017, which lasts from October 1, 2016 to September 30, 2017 . President Barack Obama submitted a budget proposal to the 114th Congress on February 9, 2016 . The 2017 fiscal year overlaps the end of the Obama administration and the beginning of the Trump administration . </P> <P> The federal budget outlines the government's plans for spending and revenue . In the United States, the federal budget request is first introduced by the president . The federal budget and all appropriations must then be written and approved by the United States Congress . In Congress the process begins with the House Budget Committee and the Senate Budget Committee creating their own budget . After both houses pass a budget resolution, representatives and senators come up with a conference report negotiating between both the House and Senate versions . Budget resolutions do not go to the president for a signature or veto . This budget does not directly enact the actual spending of the federal government, but it sets the amounts that each congressional committee is allowed to spend on the programs, agencies and departments for which it is responsible . Actual spending is driven by the final appropriations bills . </P>

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