All appropriations originate in the house, so Speaker of the House Paul Ryan has greatest control over balancing the budget. What used to happen before 0bama completely broke the government (We haven’t had a budget in 8 years, instead operating on continuing resolutions basically repeating the last approved budget over and over) is that the Executive Branch solicits from all the agencies their proposed budget which they submit to the House, and the House – power of the purse – comes out with a budget in two parts: What you can spend money on (authorizations) and how much is available for each authorization (appropriations). It reconciles with Senate and Pres approves, ideally before 1 October start of the fiscal year.
Trump is sort of screwed. “Sequestration” has raped the military, a shell of its former self. Their appropriations have been slashed by about forty percent over 0bama’s term. They need money. Where does it come from? While the confiscation of earnings has reached record levels, $3.632 trillion in 2016, the wasteful broken tax and spend government spends even more than it makes! And that’s while NOT funding the military! A big part of that is 0bamacare, a new welfare that is very expensive.
Even if Ryan submits a balanced budget for FY2018, that doesn’t do anything to touch 0bama’s $20 trillion debt.
I’d like to see Trump slash and burn the budget. National Public Radio (democrat propaganda wing), National Endowment for the Arts, foreign aid for pretty much the whole world – gone. 0bamacare gone. Housing and Urban development section 8 gone. I’ve read the constitution a few times and don’t remember the part about me paying ghetto rat rent. Forbid immigrant use of US education and medical and no welfare for any immigrant, illegal or legal. And fire A LOT of federal bureaucrats. Their pension and medical legacy costs are huge. The Department of Agriculture does nothing for agriculture. They hand out foodstamps. There is no need for a federal echelon Department of Education. Created in the 70s, they have hurt education.
Will Ryan do it? We’ll see. There’s a lot of freeloaders suckling on the government teat, and they will squeal.