https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/538\/feels-government-shut\/story?id=108891202<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“Over this 25-year stretch, Congress has passed its final annual funding package* an average of 113 days into the corresponding fiscal year, around Jan. 21. And that number is trending upward: Over the last decade, the government operated under stopgap funding measures for an average of 134 days, or into mid-February. We only need to look back two years, to fiscal 2022, to find the last time CRs stretched into March, and back to fiscal 2017 for an even longer impasse, which wasn\u2019t resolved until early May.
\nThis means Congress may spend half of each year struggling to complete its most basic responsibility of funding the government, at the expense of other legislative priorities. And even though passing CRs staves off government shutdowns, operating under short-term funding has costly, wide-ranging impacts on federal operations. Funding uncertainty makes it difficult for agencies to plan and budget effectively, often forcing them to delay major projects \u2014 an issue of particular concern when it comes to military readiness.”<\/p>\n
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“Strikingly, this year\u2019s funding bill not only passed with fewer Republican than Democratic votes, but also with more than half of the Republican caucus voting against it (breaking the informal \u201cHastert rule\u201d of House majority leadership). Johnson certainly isn\u2019t the first embattled GOP speaker to struggle with a divided party, but this marks the first time in the 25 years we analyzed that any annual appropriations bill or package has passed without a majority of the majority\u2019s support.”<\/p>\n
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