We haven’t had a budget since April 29, 2009. So we haven’t had any budget rules to enforce since then.
Stephen Baker
🏋️♂️ 🇨🇦 (Baron Buff Badger) @Buffbadbadger
7h7 hours agoI guess no one has figured out yet why the Dems and Rinos went all in on a budget busting Omnibus Bill?
They forced @realDonaldTrump in a position to sign or shutdown Gov. They WANTED him to veto it, so they could be in shutdown mode when the storm hits. #QAnon
Mark my words.
That is simply, totally, and utterly untrue.
What the Congress has not done is follow the budgeting process since 2009 in a timely manner, e.g. a budget resolution then the subcommittees pass the 11 appropriations bills (or whatever the number) and then a full up vote by the full appropriations committees and then the House and then the Senate and then reconciliation and then to the President, all done before the close of a fiscal year for the next fiscal year.
But that is far from saying there are no rules. Continuing resolutions are simply laws that extend an in force appropriation law for a number of additional months with all the rules of the original appropriation PLUS all the rules contained in the CR. An Omnibus is full of rules and laws as well. It is just one humongous bill rather than 11 sepearate bills.
BUT THERE ARE RULES AND THERE IS LAW. It's a mess and Cpngress should do its job properly, but no one has assumed extra-constitutional authorities in this process.