President Obama presents his optimistic, ambitious budget to Congress.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/02/09/1482335/-President-Obama-ignores-Republican-temper-tantrum-presents-optimistic-ambitious-budget?detail=facebook

The White House has released President Obama's 2017 budget, a blueprint for continued economic progress that will land in Congress with a resounding thud. Despite the fact that Republicans rejected the budget before they even saw it, and even took the unprecedented (and obnoxious) step of refusing to allow the president’s budget director, Shaun Donovan, the opportunity to present the budget in hearings. Even Republicans are criticizing this dickishness.

G. William Hoagland, who was the Republican staff director at the Senate Budget Committee for much of the 1980s and 1990s, and is senior vice president of the Bipartisan Policy Center, said he could not recall a year since the modern budget process took effect in the 1970s when a president’s budget director was not invited to testify before the budget committees.

"While the last budget of an outgoing president is usually aspirational, and sets a theme for what he or she hopes will be followed up by his or her successor, it nonetheless should be reviewed by the Congress," Mr. Hoagland said. […]

"I believe that permitting the administration the courtesy of explaining its intent and what it thinks of the policy should have been maintained," said Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a former director of the Congressional Budget Office and an economic adviser to Republicans. Besides, he added, "it gives you an opportunity to express why you disagree."