[TheConservativeTejano]

The House Appropriations Committee released legislation on Wednesday evening that would keep the government open through Jan. 19. It would also fund the Defense Department through September 2018 and avert automatic sequestration cuts that would otherwise take effect, as well as extend funding for the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) for the next year.

Why haven't the Pubblies gotten rid of sequestration???

Is this a 60-40 Senate vote to get rid of this?

We thought it is the duty of our POTUS to protect us and Defense Spending should not take a hit period.

[Cheerio]

CRs should be made illegal. When was the last line by line appropriations bill signed?

How the federal budget is supposed to work and why it rarely does

By the end of spring, the real work on the budget begins. In the House and Senate appropriations committees, lawmakers begin poring over the 12 bills that make up the whole of the federal budget:

Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies;
Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies;
Defense;
Energy and Water Development, and Related Agencies;
Financial Services and General Government;
Homeland Security;
Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies;
Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies;
Legislative Branch;
Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies;
State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs; and Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies.

Each bill has its own subcommittee, whose job it is to pass their appointed appropriations bill, sending it to the full committee and eventually onto the floor for a full vote. These bills are supposed to conform to the overall spending framework already set in the budget resolution.

BUT only 28% is even to be debated!!!! The rest is on autopilot!