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One of the parties? You haven’t been around DC much I’m assuming.
by briandear 8y ago
One of the parties? You haven’t been around DC much I’m assuming.
- jacobolus 8y agoYes, one of the parties is largely responsible for budget cuts in the Congress’s own staff. A web search turns up e.g. https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/economy/news/2015/06/15/114975/congress-makes-itself-dysfunctional-with-legislative-branch-cuts/ https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/economy/news/2015/06... Or more recently and pointedly, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-congress-cbo-idUSKBN1A92KN https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-congress-cbo-idUSKBN1... Or you can find many other sources from the past 25 years discussing this. The Congress should be robustly funding the Congressional Research Service, the Government Accountability Office, the Congressional Budget Office, committee staff, individual members’ staff, etc. But one party does not want the Congress to build up long-term institutional expertise or do careful independent analysis.