Why does Congress wait until it's panic time to pass spending bills?

[the watcher]

You really can't call it a budget because there is no intention of any real financial planning. If you even casually browse though one you will notice that is has so much needless and line item crap in it that none of them would stand up to scrutiny, and you begin to understand how the system works. Special interests, payback to supporters, and more reckless spending in a 1600 page manifesto that no one reads. Add to the swelling spending items is the cancerous regulations that springs from various 'departments' that are created is are what really affect your life. I've heard it said by the beneficiaries of this gifting is that "well, that is just a drop in the bucket" to the total amount. True, like that nose bleed you have is just a minor thing, so is the canary that dies in the coal mine. This is how our Congress works, and relies on the Federal Reserve to make it appear sustainable and the media to sell it. https://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20241216/CR.pdf

 

[1srelluc]

They hoped (in this case) that 1500 pages of pork so close to the Holidays would go unnoticed, but the deputies of DOGE made them deposit their bill in yonder receptacle for review and comment on X and the public went WTF!.

Busted!

 

[EMH]

Speaker Mike is a Zionist Fascist Jew Supremacist Left Wing 911 Traitor.

Speaker Mike did that.

Speaker Mike doesn't care about America at all, he only cares about Israel.

Supporters of Israel can all pat themselves on the back, as without them, Speaker Mike would not be Speaker...


Support for Israel = death of conservatism, patriotism to America, and America

 

[Dr.Destructo]

It's like turning your homework in at the very last second.
You HOPE the teacher won't notice the lousy job you did, or that you wrote it was all padding and little substance.
You HOPE by the time they get to YOUR homework at the end of the pile, they'll be too tired to care.

Thats why they do it.

 

[JWBooth]

Why does Congress wait until it's panic time to pass spending bills?​

To avoid scrutiny.

 

[Auld Phart]

You really can't call it a budget because there is no intention of any real financial planning. If you even casually browse though one you will notice that is has so much needless and line item crap in it that none of them would stand up to scrutiny, and you begin to understand how the system works. Special interests, payback to supporters, and more reckless spending in a 1600 page manifesto that no one reads. Add to the swelling spending items is the cancerous regulations that springs from various 'departments' that are created is are what really affect your life. I've heard it said by the beneficiaries of this gifting is that "well, that is just a drop in the bucket" to the total amount. True, like that nose bleed you have is just a minor thing, so is the canary that dies in the coal mine. This is how our Congress works, and relies on the Federal Reserve to make it appear sustainable and the media to sell it. https://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20241216/CR.pdf

easier to add pork then.

 

[Votto]

You really can't call it a budget because there is no intention of any real financial planning. If you even casually browse though one you will notice that is has so much needless and line item crap in it that none of them would stand up to scrutiny, and you begin to understand how the system works. Special interests, payback to supporters, and more reckless spending in a 1600 page manifesto that no one reads. Add to the swelling spending items is the cancerous regulations that springs from various 'departments' that are created is are what really affect your life. I've heard it said by the beneficiaries of this gifting is that "well, that is just a drop in the bucket" to the total amount. True, like that nose bleed you have is just a minor thing, so is the canary that dies in the coal mine. This is how our Congress works, and relies on the Federal Reserve to make it appear sustainable and the media to sell it. https://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20241216/CR.pdf

It's a combination of being an attention whore drama queen and just flat lazy I think.

That and you can justify crazy train spending to "avert" a crisis.

 

[rightwinger]

Because it is an election year and Congress does not want to approve anything controversial.


There is also a wing of the Republican Party that thrives on chaos and believes government serves no purpose

 

[WorldWatcher]

You really can't call it a budget because there is no intention of any real financial planning.

Because there are no consequences. Shouldn't we dispense with this nansy-pansy type of "partial" shutdown bull crap.

If Congress is going to shutdown the government than they should be required to actually shut it down. None of this "essential" work force bull shyte.

Shut it down and make it painful so that Congress will really hear from constituents.

• Government workers (all of them) are sent home with no back pay for time missed. This includes EVERYONE.
• Air Traffic Controllers get to stay on the job until aircraft have landed, no new flights are allowed to take off or enter American air space from other countries if they took off after the shutdown time.
• FBI, Border Patrol, NSA, CIA, etc. - Go home. We'll call you to come back.
• Government processing of financials stops.
• No Social Security checks issued.
• No Medicare checks issued.
• No VA checks issued.
• No pay for the military.
• Payment to State and School districts for everything stops.
• Federal Courts shut down.
• etc.

Congressional staff is sent home. The only ones allowed to work in the empty Capital Building are the actual members of Congress because under the Constitution their compensation cannot be reduced during their term of office so they are the only ones getting paid.

If a shutdown was a real shut down Congress would think twice before ignoring their responsibilities and pulling political stunts.

WW

 

[el midgetron]

It also includes some psychological impact. It’s how they condition us to accept the bullshit they do. They sell it to us by convincing us about how much we need it. It’s the propaganda equivalent of an infomercial.