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A CR isn't supposed to be for fixing things. It's an emergency measure to be used while they set about setting a real budget. Fixing the budget is hard. "Waste

A CR isn't supposed to be for fixing things. It's an emergency measure to be used while they set about setting a real budget. Fixing the budget is hard. "Waste" is in the eye of the beholder. Every program exists for a reason. There is far, far less actual "waste" in the budget than people have been led to believe. Hard choices get resolved democratically, and that's not quick. The debt is not yet a crisis; we can afford to continue the entire budget while we figure out what things we actually don't want. That's a matter of months, not years.

ty6853 2y ago
> That's a matter of months, not years. That sounds convincing until you realize we're already on a cr from December [0] which created the same fictional premise. >t's an emergency measure to be used while they set about setting a real budget. Except they just sat on their hands for months, clearly no emergency, now theyre saying 'yes ditto, much emergency, 6 more months of same.' [0] https://www.naco.org/news/us-congress-passes-continuing-resolution-fund-government-until-march-14-2025 https://www.naco.org/news/us-congress-passes-continuing-reso...
- jfengel 2y ago
  Yes, the last Congress very much whiffed its chance to make a budget. The December CR was political: let the new Congress make do it. It's no surprise that it takes longer than two months. It would be perfectly reasonable to just pass an actual budget, rather than a CR, that continues last year's priorities. The next budget cycle starts in September; make a real budget for the current Congress' priorities then. A less-incompetent 2025/2026 Congress would indeed have arrived in January with a worked-out plan. Certainly the administration did. I think they were waiting to see how well that plan worked, and are surprised that it has been so effective.

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A CR isn't supposed to be for fixing things. It's an emergency measure to be used while they set about setting a real budget. Fixing the budget is hard. "Waste

by jfengel 2y ago

ty6853 2y ago
> That's a matter of months, not years. That sounds convincing until you realize we're already on a cr from December [0] which created the same fictional premise. >t's an emergency measure to be used while they set about setting a real budget. Except they just sat on their hands for months, clearly no emergency, now theyre saying 'yes ditto, much emergency, 6 more months of same.' [0] https://www.naco.org/news/us-congress-passes-continuing-resolution-fund-government-until-march-14-2025 https://www.naco.org/news/us-congress-passes-continuing-reso...
- jfengel 2y ago
  Yes, the last Congress very much whiffed its chance to make a budget. The December CR was political: let the new Congress make do it. It's no surprise that it takes longer than two months. It would be perfectly reasonable to just pass an actual budget, rather than a CR, that continues last year's priorities. The next budget cycle starts in September; make a real budget for the current Congress' priorities then. A less-incompetent 2025/2026 Congress would indeed have arrived in January with a worked-out plan. Certainly the administration did. I think they were waiting to see how well that plan worked, and are surprised that it has been so effective.