So non-defense spending was Agreed to 704 billion, but CBO now says they need 734 billion. But the 1% cut will be 704B - 1% … leaving non-defense 37 Billion below current level … I’ll take that deal …
All the more reason not to give another dollar to Ukraine.
Lawmakers were expected to work from these numbers when crafting their 12 annual funding bills, but the law also included a penalty meant to incentivize the House and Senate to finish their work by Jan. 1.
And there it is....lawmakers expected to work....what an crock of sh*t if one has ever been printed.
As if no one knows what the playbook is, I’ll give the laymens version:
1. pretend to be working on the budget, while doing nothing, and having staffers come up with all their wants, whims and desires.
2. wait for something big to happen or create something big, so Congress doesn’t have to work on the bills and concentrate on the ‘big event’ because without their consultation and leadership the world will collapse.
3. go on some spring recess so they can go home to their constituents
4. come back and deal with another ‘big event’, pushing their budget work to the back burner even longer
5. all hands on deck for the upcoming election
6. come early September, there are no budget bills so they just have to pass another CR or Omnibus that is filled with the wants, whims and desires of the staffers that wrote it.
And people tore into Gaetz for trying to stop this.
Covid spending needs to be backed completely out of the system. The baseline for federal spending should be the full expenditures in 2019. Work from that number and make it fit.
The gop decided not to fight the increase, and ran home. They could have objected, but chose to support the increase.
Should have been a 10% mandatory cut.
At least we see the way forward. We need to increase the penalty.
Of course they’ll just increase the amount in the final deal though :-(
No Biden didn’t give that to them... the GOP did! They control the house which owns the purse strings.
You are falling into the uniparty gambit.
Who cares? It is like worrying about how much booze is left on the Titanic or something like that.
Notice “Budget cuts” are defined as not increasing spending.
How will they ever survive with a 1% cut.
Cut all funding to any and all illegal parties it’s a net gain by the billions.
Include states and cities schools ..........................