Before Obama took power, and the first year in power, the Federal government massively increased spending in many, many areas. They then used this ‘omnibus’ insanity to pile on more and more spending. Many Federal departments increased and then declared that the new, total spending increase level to be the baseline. When Pelousy became Speaker the first time, she closed her office door and created new spending / regulation legislation without the usual committee, subcommittee process that was used previously. Before Pelousy, for 6 decades, I remember following the news on how many bills (pieces of legislation) ‘made it out of the committee’ and would be voted on, or altered with the amendment process.
Pelousy threw all of that out. After a few chosen congressmen crafted a very large omnibus, continuation monstrosity, Pelousy would force each DemocRAT to vote for it. Anyone who balked at it was in danger of losing their next election. Pelousy and company held the massive purse strings on re-election funds.
Pelousy and the RATS would wait until Thanksgiving and Christmas to present the omnibus bill, stating, each time, the incredible urgency of passage. We have to pass it to find out what is in it. Read, discuss? Oh, the horror!
‘There is no time to read it’ Women, children, and old people need the money right now. The Drive-By Media would excoriate any politician that would bring up the fact that a large percentage of the spending is borrowed money that our children and grandchildren will be paying back for years.
All this is yet another reason and example of why Trump is such a danger to the status quo. Any interruption in the flow and increase of the trillions would be ‘catastrophic.’ DemocRATS might actually have to get a real job. I will never forget a San Francisco democRAT stating the truth about elections: If we don’t win, we don’t eat. Getting up every day and working for a living is anathema to these creeps.
Right, the traditional budget process was just kind of chucked out the window never to be seen again. When was the last time we had a normal budget...sometime back in the Obama years, right?
Now it’s these Clown World omnibus bills that get worked out behind closed doors and then shoved down the country’s throat on a “must pass” basis. Trillions of dollars being decided outside of the constitutional structure.