diff --git a/litellm/proxy/auth/auth_checks.py b/litellm/proxy/auth/auth_checks.py
index 38976f79aa3..a79e9c80e51 100644
--- a/litellm/proxy/auth/auth_checks.py
+++ b/litellm/proxy/auth/auth_checks.py
@@ -1109,7 +1109,7 @@ async def get_end_user_object(
     end_user_id: Optional[str],
     prisma_client: Optional[PrismaClient],
     user_api_key_cache: UserApiKeyCache,
-    route: str,
+    route: Optional[str] = "",
     parent_otel_span: Optional[Span] = None,
     proxy_logging_obj: Optional[ProxyLogging] = None,
 ) -> Optional[LiteLLM_EndUserTable]:
@@ -1153,9 +1153,6 @@ async def get_end_user_object(
             parent_otel_span=parent_otel_span,
         )
 
-        # Check budget limits
-        await _check_end_user_budget(end_user_obj=return_obj, route=route)
-
         return return_obj
 
     # Fetch from database
@@ -1186,14 +1183,9 @@ async def get_end_user_object(
             model_type=LiteLLM_EndUserTable,
         )
 
-        # Check budget limits
-        await _check_end_user_budget(end_user_obj=_response, route=route)
-
         return _response
 
-    except Exception as e:
-        if isinstance(e, litellm.BudgetExceededError):
-            raise e
+    except Exception:
         return None
 
 
@@ -1290,8 +1282,6 @@ async def _end_user_id_exists_in_db(
         )
         if end_user_obj is not None:
             return True
-    except litellm.BudgetExceededError:
-        raise
     except Exception as e:
         verbose_proxy_logger.debug(
             f"end_user validation: get_end_user_object lookup failed: {e}"
diff --git a/litellm/proxy/auth/user_api_key_auth.py b/litellm/proxy/auth/user_api_key_auth.py
index 2f9a1411400..6313fd108c2 100644
--- a/litellm/proxy/auth/user_api_key_auth.py
+++ b/litellm/proxy/auth/user_api_key_auth.py
@@ -1757,8 +1757,7 @@ async def _user_api_key_auth_builder(  # noqa: PLR0915
 async def _safe_fetch(label: str, awaitable):
     """Run an awaitable and return its result. Re-raises authentication /
     authorization failures (HTTPException, ProxyException,
-    BudgetExceededError — which ``get_end_user_object`` raises for
-    end-user budget violations) so they propagate to the caller.
+    BudgetExceededError) so they propagate to the caller.
     Other exceptions (e.g. transient DB errors fetching context) are
     swallowed with a debug log and ``None`` is returned so
     ``common_checks`` can still run against whatever limits are recorded