Biden aides are betting that Johnson won't be able to figure this out and are preparing along two tracks.

Biden aides are betting that Johnson won’t be able to figure this out and are preparing along two tracks.

  • someguy3@lemmy.caEnglish
    13·
    1 year ago

    So how many months ago was a functional house supposed to pass a budget?

    • stolid_agnostic@lemmy.ml
      19·
      1 year ago

      This isn’t about budgets. It’s about not fixing what is broken. Basically prior to Nixon, Congress authorized a maximum debt amount and the president was meant to spend it on programs that Congress wanted. Nixon decided he wouldn’t spend the money, which offended Congress and they changed how laws were written so that the president wouldn’t have a choice. Nobody ever removed the system of spending caps and here we are.