Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“‘By law, we have one job,’ Rep. Tim Burchett (R‑Tenn.) asserted the last time he opposed the ‘continuing resolution’ (CR) on the federal budget. What is that ‘one job?’ It is ‘to pass twelve appropriations bills and a budget. We aren’t doing that, which is why we are $33 trillion in debt.’ You noticed the typo. But it wasn’t. Sure, $33 trillion isn’t right. Yesterday, the official public debt of the federal government was $36.6 trillion, with just a smidge of rounding up. Those first two paragraphs are from 2023; one can almost cut and paste old copy about Washington’s CR fiascos and place them in new pieces and get away with it, clean. On Tuesday, the House passed a continuing resolution to keep the federal government chugging along, with its usual substitute authorization for spending rather than a real budget.” (03/13/25)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2025/03/13/the-continuing-crisis/