One Thousand Days without a Budget

[Chris_]

One Thousand Days without a Budget

President Obama’s State of the Union address this evening will mark the passage of the 1000th day since the Democrat-controlled Senate passed a budget. In his address this evening, the President will likely propose even more federal spending despite the enormous deficit and the unprecedented $15 trillion dollar national debt. Without a budget from our elected representatives to provide restraint to Washington bureaucrats, this increased spending will continue unchecked.

A fundamental responsibility of Congress is to pass an annual budget in order to provide guidance to the immense federal bureaucracy. Without even this semblance of oversight, the majority of government spending goes on “auto-pilot” and in effect government agencies and programs run themselves, with appropriation bills covering the tab. Needless to say, this is not the system of government laid out by the Founders in the Constitution. Congress is meant to legislate and govern, not to abdicate these responsibilities to unelected, unaccountable government bureaucrats.

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[thundley4]

Republicans in the house gave in on this.  They should have refused to pass all non-constitutionally mandated spending bills without a budget.

[docstew]

Republicans in the house gave in on this.  They should have refused to pass all non-constitutionally mandated spending bills without a budget.

Only so much they can do. The HOR did pass a budget, they can't require the Senate to do anything with it.

[thundley4]

Only so much they can do. The HOR did pass a budget, they can't require the Senate to do anything with it.

But the HOR could have held any and all senate bill up until the senate passed a budget.

[docstew]

But the HOR could have held any and all senate bill up until the senate passed a budget.

That would have fed into the "obstructionist GOP" meme. As long as they are there doing the "people's business", 0bama gets no traction on it.

[JohnnyReb]

Who needs a budget when you still have blank checks?