EMAIL DETAILS

Soon the White House Will Be A Little Less Orszagulous

June 21, 2010 8:40 PM
More<http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2010/06/soon-the-white-house-will-be-a-little-less-orszagulous.html#>

Office of Management and Budget director Peter Orszag will leave the Obama
administration in the next few weeks, Democratic sources familiar with the
situation tell ABC News.

The administration declined to comment, but Orszag was director of the
Congressional Budget Office for two years before becoming OMB in January
2009. Eighteen months is approximately the median amount of time for the OMB
director position, and Orszag is said to want to move on, having served in
his position during the passage of the $862 billion stimulus bill and the
nearly $1 trillion health care legislation.

Now would be a good time to leave in order to get a successor in place: If
Orszag were to stay on much longer into the summer, he would get into the
next round of budgets.

A possible replacement is Gene Sperling, a counselor to Treasury Secretary
Tim Geithner.

Bloomberg News's Hans Nichols reported earlier
today<http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-06-21/obama-budget-chief-orszag-said-to-be-planning-to-leave-post.html>
that
Orszag was planning on leaving in the next few months.

-Jake Tapper

--
Eric D. Schwerin
Rosemont Seneca Partners
(202) 333-1880
eschwerin@rosemontseneca.co