Trump had to deal with this Bill to get Defense spending, he won’t in the future ones.
Defense won't be funded in future years?
> Trump had to deal with this Bill to get Defense spending, he won’t in the future ones.
Congress no longer works according to a Constitutional budget process. Trump will need to deal with that every year unless he changes something.
As of now, we still have Ryan and McConnell “leading” and paying more attention to Pelosi and Schumer than Trump and his supporters. Every year Ryan’s been in charge, has said “we didn’t have time to do the budget right this year so here’s an Omnibus bill nobody has read. But we’ll do it right next year”.
I see no reason to think they will do a real budget for next year. With elections this year, it’s a 100% guarantee that we get a continuing resolution when we should be getting the appropriation bills. They probably won’t want to push the “budget” past 2018 again so we’ll get an omnibus before they go home for the year and they can enjoy their Christmas. The only way we don’t get an omnibus this year is if the Dems take back the house or senate. In that case they’ll want CRs to take us to the next congress - Ryan and McConnell will be more than happy to let that happen so they won’t be blamed. And you can be sure Schumer and Pelosi are already working on what they can slip into an omnibus this year to “stop Trump” or even better, what they can tell republicans to accept if they take control of the house or senate.
Reagan increased our military readiness to unprecedented levels during his time in office--while shutting down the government 6 times.
The excuse that it provided military funding that he couldn't otherwise get is a lie.