That's how govt operates. Funding deadline comes up, threat of a govt shutdown, pass a CR for a few months/part of the year, repeat the process.Ibanez wrote:BDKJMU wrote:
Again I was obviously off a year typed FY 2016 & 2017, major brain fart, meant FY 2017 & 2018.
The possibility of a government shutdown at the end of this week (4/28) wouldn't be because a 2018 budget wasn't passed. We're talking FY 2017 budget $$, which has been operating on continuing resolutions, the last of which was passed in Dec, which goes through Sept. Just reported USAToday:
"...members of the House and Senate Appropriations committees, in consultation with the White House, are hammering out the last few items in a spending bill that would fund federal agencies through September and avert a shutdown. Congress passed a stop-gap spending measure in December that funded federal agencies through April 28...."
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/pol ... 100925460/
The negotiations on FY 2018, which will be the 1st full fiscal year budget under Trump, doesn't start until later this year..
My only thing with debating FY18 in the fall...is that it's too late.Oct 1 starts the year.
Leave it up to Congress to be lazy, good for nothing SOBs.
I looked up this:
"Under Senate interpretations of the Congressional Budget Act, the Senate can consider the three basic subjects of reconciliation — spending, revenues, and debt limit — in a single bill or multiple bills, but it can consider each of these three in only one bill per year (unless Congress passes a second budget resolution). Consequently, in the Senate there can be a maximum of three reconciliation bills in a year, one for each of the basic subjects of reconciliation.
This rule is most significant if the first reconciliation bill that the Senate takes up affects both spending and revenues. Even if that bill is overwhelmingly devoted to only one of those subjects, no subsequent reconciliation bill can affect either revenues or spending because the first bill already addressed them."
http://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-bu ... nciliation
Haven't we already had reconciliation this year, so the budget that has to be passed by Fri to avoid a partial govt shutdown subject to the 60 vote cloture rule in the Senate? Wouldn't the one that has to be passed by the end of this Sept subject to budget reconciliation, only requiring 50 + 1 votes in the Senate?
