The proposed executive budget concentrated financial power in the Governor

Evidence

An “executive budget” system—including not only expenditures but a plan for raising the revenues necessary to pay for them—should be drawn up by the Governor, and only then submitted to the Legislature; it should be safeguarded, at every step, by public hearings to doubly insure that the financial policy of the state would not be decided upon behind the closed doors of either Executive Chamber or committee room. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 464

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Legislative budget cuts cannot stop an executive who shifts funds between departments — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 994