Congressional leaders announced an agreement Sunday on a short-term spending bill that will fund federal agencies for about three months, averting a possible partial government shutdown when the new budget year begins Oct. 1 and pushing final decisions until after the November election.
Temporary spending bills generally fund agencies at current levels, but an additional $231 million was included to bolster the Secret Service after the two assassination attempts against Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, and additional money was added to aid with the presidential transition, among other things.
Do we just fund the government in installments now? This is getting a little ridiculous
Now? This can has been kicked down the road for years now.
There’s no reason that congress couldn’t approve funding for the next 20 years, pegged to inflation, with an option to increase if necessary.
But they don’t because that would mean they couldn’t play political football over it.
a… little…ridiculous?
I’m curious what you would define as “utterly ridiculous”?
I ask because mostly because I need a distraction from this bullshit.
Just a figure of speech. The house and senate funding stuff is an absolute shitshow right now.
Rinse, repeat. Way to hold the federal employees and the entire fucking population hostage, republicans!
So DJT failed to get Mike Johnson to toe the line about forcing a shut down if they didn’t get the voter suppression that he wanted. Sounds like the rest of the party is slipping through his fingers.
This is so stupid. The laws for doing this approval was from a time when the presidents cabinet made the budget but congress took that back and do it with the congressional budget office now. So they vote on a budget and then vote on if they should fund it.
Temporary spending bills generally fund agencies at current levels
That’s not true. If they could agree on that, it would never come to this much of an impasse in the first place.
an additional $231 million was included to bolster the Secret Service after the two assassination attempts against Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump
What a waste. Would be much better to spend a couple millions teaching his would-be assassins better marksmanship. Would probably save the country dozens of billions in purely monetary terms.
and additional money was added to aid with the presidential transition, among other things.
This might be good, though: more public funding might make it less tempting to solicit private funding from foreign governments and billionaires both foreign and domestic who would want bad things in return for helping foot the bill. Regardless of who wins.
