Just a day after the national debt reached the record milestone of $22 trillion, the House passed a $1 trillion appropriations bill in an evening vote. More
While the media is focused on speculating who is winning the border wall funding fight, there were items the House bill, whole “divisions” of spending where increases over last year have been noted. Here
Meanwhile, the Senate passed its own $333 billion omnibus which contains seven of the 12 annual appropriations bills that were not signed into law before the Oct. 1. More
Something I would very much like to see President Trump do is issue an executive order imposing generally accepted accounting practices on the Executive branch. Having auditable books would go a long way to exposing waste, fraud, and abuse, and make it possible to actually pass budgets and evaluate compliance.
Given all the accusations from the left of “manufacturing a crisis,” isn’t that exactly what they accomplished with the threat of another shutdown to get their Porkapalyse Bill passed?
I’m starting to get the impression that the congressional democrats baited the president by denying then fighting over wall funding. It seems that though he may have taken the bait he’s also took all their fishing gear and swamped their boat once he declares a national emergency on this one.
I wonder what the crisis will be next year to hide their big spending bills?
“… make it possible to actually pass budgets and evaluate compliance.”
Which is exactly why it’ll never be done.
(but you knew that)
izlamo delenda est …
Up is down and black is white, welcome to the new world order.
Economic indicators used to be predictable. In our short history, in times of economic slowdown (depressions, stagflation) the government would spend (injecting liquidity in the hopes of spurring a recovery) and in times of prosperity the government would rein in spending to pay down debt in preparation for the next inevitable slowdown. All that’s been turned on its head. Spending, whether in good times or bad, never adjusts for market conditions, it is always peddle to the metal mach 5. This is unsustainable.
And both parties are equally guilty. Basic economic principals that used to be the core foundation of the GOP, that of fiscal responsibility and an accountable government to the people have been thrown right out the window for political expediency.
More Republicans should get really cranked over this, but nobody cares, its all ones and zeroes floating around in the ether. Kicking the can down the road, we never used to stand for this, why now?
“…”we never used to stand for this, why now?”
Because Bill Clinton showed the Dems they could cry, pander and steal and get away with it. And the Bushes did the same. And then we raised kids by TV and non-functioning schools and guess who have been on TV and in the schools in the last decade? The victims class is teaching and the hollywood elites are acting out.