Still Waiting for that Budget. With just over a
week to go on the current continuing resolution, we once again find
ourselves waiting to see whether (when, really) the government will
be funded. In a well-publicized meeting earlier this week,
President Trump told Minority Leaders Pelosi and Schumer that he
would refuse to sign a budget bill that did not contain the
requested $5 billion for a border wall. It is doubtful that an
appropriations package containing that funding would get through
the Senate . . . and it’s questionable whether it could even
be passed by the House. And so we wait to see who will flinch to
avoid a government shutdown.
Well . . . Not the *Whole* Government.
Sometimes lost in the discussions of the government shutdown
brinksmanship is that, this time, things are a bit different. Five
of the 12 appropriations bills already have been passed, including
the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education,
and Related Agencies
