> Sure, but that proposal along with clear milestones and deliverables should come before the funding. Probably not the worst idea. The CBO already does a lot

> Sure, but that proposal along with clear milestones and deliverables should come before the funding. Probably not the worst idea. The CBO already does a lot of that though. With the current situation though, we already did the spending. We need to at least reduce the deficit, if not the debt. > One of the primary things we can do to improve the government is define objectives for new legislation, and make the new laws null and void automatically if they fail to achieve the desired objective. That's a recipe for either a bunch of way-too-low bars to jump, or a lot of legislation that was on the right track but we just undo it. With the current situation in the US Senate, more hurdles to passing legislation is _not_ what is needed.