Republicans in Congress will try to pass a stopgap spending bill this week to avert a partial government shutdown and keep the government running through September, though they’ll need Democrats’ help to do it.
The 99-page stopgap spending bill, which House Republicans released over the weekend, is required since lawmakers haven’t made any progress conferencing the dozen annual government funding bills that were supposed to become law by Oct. 1.
The continuing resolution, the third since October, would fund the federal government for the rest of fiscal year 2025 — marking the first time since fiscal 2013 that Congress has leaned on stopgap spending bills for the entire year, according to a report from the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service.
You know, I had a gut reaction to your post, “If it’s in the law they have to honor it!”
But then I remembered what timeline we’re in. The one where congress and the courts have abdicated themselves to the Executive Branch. The one where there is nothing to stop the Republicans in congress from making promises, putting them into the budget, Trump flatly denying it (aka Impoundment), and congress and the courts not pushing back.
It can 100% happen and we have the evidence and precedent now to prove it.
I’ve had to do this a lot. If I had a nickel for every time on Lemmy alone that I’ve had to argue with someone because they keep saying “Trump can’t do that! There are laws against it!”, refusing to understand that the very people responsible for enforcing those laws have been spending the past 6 weeks saying “Oh, yes. Yes he can.”
Laws are irrelevant if there is nobody willing or able to enforce them.