---
type: Body
title: "Director of the Office of Management and Budget"
classification: "executive-office"
chamber: "executive"
code: "EXEC-OFFICE-OF-MANAGEMENT-AND-BUDGET-DIRECTOR"
parent: "us/executive/office-of-management-and-budget"
schedule_level: "I"
sources:
  - field: definition
    source: "5 U.S.C. § 5312 (Executive Schedule, Level I)"
confidence: official
tags: [body, executive, executive-office]
timestamp: "2026-07-03"
---

# Director of the Office of Management and Budget

Cabinet-rank office (Executive Schedule Level I, 5 U.S.C. § 5312), head of the [Office of Management and Budget](/us/executive/office-of-management-and-budget/index.md).

## Empowered by the U.S. Code

329 sections of the U.S. Code vest authority in this office. A sample:

- [2 U.S.C. § 1511](/legal/us/code/title-02/chapter-25/section-1511.md)
- [2 U.S.C. § 1535](/legal/us/code/title-02/chapter-25/section-1535.md)
- [2 U.S.C. § 1536](/legal/us/code/title-02/chapter-25/section-1536.md)
- [2 U.S.C. § 1537](/legal/us/code/title-02/chapter-25/section-1537.md)
- [2 U.S.C. § 1538](/legal/us/code/title-02/chapter-25/section-1538.md)
- [2 U.S.C. § 661a](/legal/us/code/title-02/chapter-17a/section-661a.md)
- [2 U.S.C. § 684](/legal/us/code/title-02/chapter-17b/section-684.md)
- [2 U.S.C. § 686](/legal/us/code/title-02/chapter-17b/section-686.md)
- [2 U.S.C. § 900](/legal/us/code/title-02/chapter-20/section-900.md)
- [5 U.S.C. § 1214](/legal/us/code/title-05/chapter-12/section-1214.md)
- [5 U.S.C. § 311](/legal/us/code/title-05/chapter-3/section-311.md)
- [5 U.S.C. § 321](/legal/us/code/title-05/chapter-3/section-321.md)
- [5 U.S.C. § 3304](/legal/us/code/title-05/chapter-33/section-3304.md)
- [5 U.S.C. § 3522](/legal/us/code/title-05/chapter-35/section-3522.md)
- [5 U.S.C. § 415](/legal/us/code/title-05/chapter-4/section-415.md)
- [5 U.S.C. § 5312](/legal/us/code/title-05/chapter-53/section-5312.md)
- [5 U.S.C. § 552](/legal/us/code/title-05/chapter-5/section-552.md)
- [5 U.S.C. § 552a](/legal/us/code/title-05/chapter-5/section-552a.md)
- [5 U.S.C. § 5584](/legal/us/code/title-05/chapter-55/section-5584.md)
- [5 U.S.C. § 5707](/legal/us/code/title-05/chapter-57/section-5707.md)
- [5 U.S.C. § 5756](/legal/us/code/title-05/chapter-57/section-5756.md)
- [5 U.S.C. § 6504](/legal/us/code/title-05/chapter-65/section-6504.md)
- [6 U.S.C. § 105](/legal/us/code/title-06/chapter-1/section-105.md)
- [6 U.S.C. § 106](/legal/us/code/title-06/chapter-1/section-106.md)
- [6 U.S.C. § 1500](/legal/us/code/title-06/chapter-6/section-1500.md)
- …and 304 more (full set in data/section_authority_edges.jsonl)