22. Department of the Treasury · Minor
Make balancing the federal budget a mission-critical Treasury objective
Printed page 702 22. Department of the Treasury
“Treasury should make balancing the federal budget a mission-critical objective. … The budget should be balanced by driving down federal spending while maintaining a strong national defense and not raising taxes.”
What has happened
- Not started
Nothing found. Treasury publishes no strategic plan naming a balanced federal budget as a mission-critical objective; its sitemap of 19,772 pages has no strategic-plan page at all, only budget requests, congressional justifications and agency financial reports, and none of the FY2026 or FY2027 documents state such a goal. Treasury's press and statements indexes for 2025 and 2026 contain no release on balancing the budget; the Secretary's public framing is growth, tax reform and deficit-to-GDP ratios rather than balance.
No action found yet. This entry is the starting point, not a finding.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
This is one of the asks the lower-tier plan anticipated: an internal management-posture ask with no public instrument at any point. not started here means “no allowlisted record that Treasury adopted this objective”, not “Treasury is indifferent to the deficit”.
Queries: the Treasury sitemap for strategic-plan|performance-plan; the press and statements indexes 2025-2026 for balanc|deficit|debt|budget; Federal Register full text for “balanced budget” with Treasury as agency.
- Action
- other
- Object
- federal budget
- ID
- 1968