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.
That’s not true. If they could agree on that, it would never come to this much of an impasse in the first place.
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.
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.