Source: Libertarian Institute
by Thomas Eddlem
“How does Congress pass budget spending levels these days? It doesn’t. It’s really that simple. The federal government’s $6.95 trillion budget will spend more than $52,000 per household in America in 2025 and it is spending more than $38,000 of that without a single vote, and passing the remaining $13,000 with a single up-or-down, ‘should-the-government-shut-down-entirely?’ vote, just like it does every year. Gen Xers grew up watching Saturday morning cartoons, with ABC-TV’s School House Rock shorts during the commercials explaining to us then-youngsters how the process of passing a law worked under the U.S. Constitution. And now that I’ve got that catchy “I’m Just a Bill” tune locked impossibly in your head, here’s the bad news: that 1976 cartoon short marked the beginning of the end of that method of legislative budgeting.” (04/21/25)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/zombie-congress-the-democracy-of-the-dead/