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Atrox
20 hours ago
Hearing the House bitch, moan, complain, demand and lose every time, is just trying. The HOUSE controls the money, but they never use it. IF you want change and you want to make demands, cut the money off and watch what happens. ... //
Tech in RL Atrox
18 hours ago
This problem can be laid at the feet of Jimmy Carter. It was during his administration that the government adopted current services baseline budgeting, which means everything in last year's budget is moved forward to the next year's budget along with automatic inflation increases UNLESS Congress votes to rescind funding or a sunset provision was provided in previous budgets. That's how you get "cuts" when they're just reductions in increases. The increases are automatic, and to interfere with that is a "cut".
Because of this, rescinding funding to DOJ, FBI, etc. is almost impossible because it requires those amendments to be passed by both the House and Senate and signed by the president. Under sane budget rules, the House could simply omit funding, but under insane current budget rules, they actually have to pass language that says they are removing funding, something that cannot happen without bipartisan support.
The rest of the world uses zero-based budgeting, which means everything in a budget must have explicit language including spending. Our insane policies include everything from last year's budget with the written budget amending what was spent last year.
In other words, even if every Republican supported zeroing out the DOJ's budget, they could not do it without Senate and presidential approval. //
INTJ ECoolidge19
5 hours ago
Congressional Budget Act of 1974, correct.