"Incremental" budgeting is when
a. the OMB accepts the bureaucracy's base budget and requests for additional funds.
b.the President approves additional budget requests to increase the size of the bureaucracy.
c. the OMB only uses the base budget adjusted for yearly inflation.
d. Congress provides additional funds to bureaucracies due to bureaucratic lobbying.
A
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