Correct. Since there hasn’t been an actual budget in more than a decade, money is doled out by the “continuing resolutions”. Those are just general appropriations to agencies of the last years amount plus 20% mark-up every year. The particular recipients of the funds are not laid out in the resolutions and neither is the purpose that the money is to be spent for. For example..”Continuing Resolution” gives FEMA $1 billion dollars. FEMA then decides, no doubt with Demoncrat urging, which programs to fund and the purposes of the funding. So FEMA decides to fund luxury hotels for illegal immigrants to the tune of $58 mil. Congress still never appropriated funds for that program or for that purpose. Continuing Resolutions must be BANNED in Congress. They are used to hide partisan political garbage like the crap DOGE is discovering..
The functional use of “continuing resolutions” for “budgeting” the federal government is a fiduciary disaster and a direct violation of the US Constitutional - you know, the document every member of Congress supposedly swears an oath to protect and defend...
You are correct, until the use of continuing resolutions is fully banned - we won’t ever get out of this financial mess.