The use of continuing resolutions is about avoiding accountability. It occurs most commonly and frequently when Democrats are in charge.
It is an affront to voters and the constitution, and it has to end if we want accountability and control over the epic spending problem the Federal Government has. This cannot be sustained no matter how much money a nation prints.
No more continuing resolutions
Year in and year out, Congress fails to perform one of its most basic responsibilities: to pass a budget. There is even a statute that sets forth the method and timeline for passing a federal budget. But instead, Congress opts for something known as a “continuing resolution,” which is a monolithic legislative setpiece that perpetuates the existing level of spending and the monstrous federal programs.
This embarrassing failure apparently isn’t too embarrassing because Congress persists in it. The only exception is that Congress periodically crams all of the programs and bills into a single entity called “omnibus” legislation for the purpose of raising the spending levels, structural deficit, and national debt — all the while, of course, funding new monstrous federal programs.
Then, once again, Congress will go back to its spending and legislative addiction, the continuing resolution. In fact, Congress has passed a continuing resolution 34 times in the last 10 years. And there is talk of another this month.
The Budget Control and Impoundment Act of 1974 requires the House of Representatives to pass 12 appropriations bills and transmit them to the Senate by June 30 of every year. The Senate is required to return those bills to the House, and any differences are to be resolved by the end of the annual fiscal year deadline of Sept. 30.
The last time this process was completed was in 1976, long before Hunter Biden’s pardon was even a gleam in the eye of President Joe Biden.
Because of this persistent legislative malpractice, we have seen a steady growth in the structural deficit, so that every year, we now spend more than $2 trillion more than we receive in federal revenue. The result is an ominous growth in our national debt that is unsustainable and will eventually produce a seismic economic collapse.
At the same time, because we can’t, or won’t, eliminate, modify, or combine federal programs in a continuing resolution, we see the immortality of the federal bureaucracy. We continue to fund the odious Planned Parenthood. The World Health Organization, United Nations, and other anti-American institutions continue to receive our dues money.
We fund weaponized government. We fund the Education Department’s targeting of Christian universities: 70% of all the department’s investigations have targeted private Christian colleges.
And it turns out we have been funding a “journalistic” organization that has been propagandizing against conservatives. The organization was primarily funded by the State Department and was a major source of information used in the first Trump impeachment.
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It is an affront to voters and the constitution, and it has to end if we want accountability and control over the epic spending problem the Federal Government has. This cannot be sustained no matter how much money a nation prints.
No more continuing resolutions
Year in and year out, Congress fails to perform one of its most basic responsibilities: to pass a budget. There is even a statute that sets forth the method and timeline for passing a federal budget. But instead, Congress opts for something known as a “continuing resolution,” which is a monolithic legislative setpiece that perpetuates the existing level of spending and the monstrous federal programs.
This embarrassing failure apparently isn’t too embarrassing because Congress persists in it. The only exception is that Congress periodically crams all of the programs and bills into a single entity called “omnibus” legislation for the purpose of raising the spending levels, structural deficit, and national debt — all the while, of course, funding new monstrous federal programs.
Then, once again, Congress will go back to its spending and legislative addiction, the continuing resolution. In fact, Congress has passed a continuing resolution 34 times in the last 10 years. And there is talk of another this month.
The Budget Control and Impoundment Act of 1974 requires the House of Representatives to pass 12 appropriations bills and transmit them to the Senate by June 30 of every year. The Senate is required to return those bills to the House, and any differences are to be resolved by the end of the annual fiscal year deadline of Sept. 30.
The last time this process was completed was in 1976, long before Hunter Biden’s pardon was even a gleam in the eye of President Joe Biden.
Because of this persistent legislative malpractice, we have seen a steady growth in the structural deficit, so that every year, we now spend more than $2 trillion more than we receive in federal revenue. The result is an ominous growth in our national debt that is unsustainable and will eventually produce a seismic economic collapse.
At the same time, because we can’t, or won’t, eliminate, modify, or combine federal programs in a continuing resolution, we see the immortality of the federal bureaucracy. We continue to fund the odious Planned Parenthood. The World Health Organization, United Nations, and other anti-American institutions continue to receive our dues money.
We fund weaponized government. We fund the Education Department’s targeting of Christian universities: 70% of all the department’s investigations have targeted private Christian colleges.
And it turns out we have been funding a “journalistic” organization that has been propagandizing against conservatives. The organization was primarily funded by the State Department and was a major source of information used in the first Trump impeachment.
No more continuing resolutions - Washington Examiner
You can never rein in spending or eliminate wasteful or harmful federal programs if you fail to pass budget bills.
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