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Not having a real budget is just a parliamentary procedure tactic, creating pressure opportunities when various continuing resolutions come up. If they have to
by morpheuskafka 1y ago
Not having a real budget is just a parliamentary procedure tactic, creating pressure opportunities when various continuing resolutions come up. If they have to make a budget they’ll make one, that doesn’t mean they’ll actually stop being partisan fools and put together a good one. It'll still be subject to all the usual nonsense.
- amanaplanacanal 1y agoYep. The US has had several years without a budget, and it meant exactly nothing. Sort of like the debt limit, it leads to a lot of political maneuvering but doesn't actually limit anything.
- smitty1e 1y ago> meant exactly nothing. "Excuse me?" said the burgeoning national debt.