Assian_Candor [comrade/them]@hexbear.net to politics@hexbear.netEnglish · 8 days agoIt is normal that the US government just shuts down every couple years nowmessage-squaremessage-square33fedilinkarrow-up190file-text
arrow-up190message-squareIt is normal that the US government just shuts down every couple years nowAssian_Candor [comrade/them]@hexbear.net to politics@hexbear.netEnglish · 8 days agomessage-square33fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareCarl [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·8 days agothe whole budget thing is dumb, just write it so that things auto-renew at the same level as before if Congress doesn’t update them
minus-squareRom [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26·edit-28 days agoThey won’t do that because they need to keep raising the budgets for the military, ICE, and aid to
minus-squareThermonuclearEgg [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-28 days agoTrue but this makes me wonder why there isn’t already a provisional budget law that raises those things to like one trillion times the current amount until the new budget is passed
minus-squareferristriangle [undecided]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·8 days agoBut then how will we do political theater with the budget if it is governed by sensible processes??
the whole budget thing is dumb, just write it so that things auto-renew at the same level as before if Congress doesn’t update them
They won’t do that because they need to keep raising the budgets for the military, ICE, and aid to
True but this makes me wonder why there isn’t already a provisional budget law that raises those things to like one trillion times the current amount until the new budget is passed
But then how will we do political theater with the budget if it is governed by sensible processes??