Republicans in Congress will try to pass a stopgap spending bill this week to avert a partial government shutdown and keep the government running through September, though they’ll need Democrats’ help to do it.
The 99-page stopgap spending bill, which House Republicans released over the weekend, is required since lawmakers haven’t made any progress conferencing the dozen annual government funding bills that were supposed to become law by Oct. 1.
The continuing resolution, the third since October, would fund the federal government for the rest of fiscal year 2025 — marking the first time since fiscal 2013 that Congress has leaned on stopgap spending bills for the entire year, according to a report from the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service.
I’ve had to do this a lot. If I had a nickel for every time on Lemmy alone that I’ve had to argue with someone because they keep saying “Trump can’t do that! There are laws against it!”, refusing to understand that the very people responsible for enforcing those laws have been spending the past 6 weeks saying “Oh, yes. Yes he can.”
Laws are irrelevant if there is nobody willing or able to enforce them.