Congress has to realize people won’t work for you for very long if they don’t get paid.
The house is the only place money can be appropriated.
Fund the military, yourselves, and screw everything else.
When the dust settles figure out what is important on a case by case basis. if it seems to big to comprehend it probably is, so break it up into something you can understand.
That is called being a statesman, a professional, a problem solver.
Sounds like a self-serving bureaucrat to me.
How about waking up and getting the damned job done?