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The idea that a government would give itself permission to spend massive amounts of money isn't news. The tucking of unrelated legislation into the budget howe

• dragonwriter 11y ago
  > The idea that a government would give itself permission to spend massive amounts of money isn't news. That any regular budget (rather than a short-term CR) was passed by the Congress to be signed by the President is news. > The tucking of unrelated legislation into the budget however, is news, especially since it had been vehemently opposed over and over in every previous version. Policy riders on budgets aren't actually unusual (people complain about them all the time, but that's not because they are uncommon), except in the sense that actual full budgets in the US are unusual. > Guess which part is reported in detail. Mostly, process and reaction and commentary from those involved; there's a lot of detail on that, but both the spending provisions and the policy riders, while covered, are given only extremely brief summaries.