Until Congress passed the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921,
A) agencies of the executive branch sent their budget requests directly to the president, who alone had the authority to approve and fund the bureaucracy.
B) agencies of the executive branch sent their budget requests to the secretary of the treasury, who forwarded them on to Congress, with the president playing little or no role in the entire process.
C) there was no federal income tax in the United States.
D) the United States had no formalized budget process.
E) the federal budget had to be balanced, by law.
Answer: B