Neil Steininger, the director of the Office of Management and Budget for Gov. Mike Dunleavy, is leaving the Dunleavy Administration. The administration said it cannot comment on personnel decisions but the decision appears to be the governor’s, and insiders chalk it up to a difference in budget philosophy.
Steininger was hired to run OMB in January 2020. He had worked in various administrative roles in state government since 2012, when he started as a Permanent Fund dividend specialist at the Department of Revenue.
After Dunleavy let go his first budget director, Donna Arduin, in 2019, there was a temporary replacement before Steininger was promoted in 2020. It’s not been announced who will serve in this role for the next three years.
