The following article by John T. Bennett was posted on the Roll Call website February 13, 2018:
‘All sorts of riders’ could bring new shutdown threats, experts say
White House officials contend the two-year budget deal that became law last week will end Washington’s spending crises and government shutdown threats. But President Donald Trump’s new budget request suggests otherwise.
Trump himself was lukewarm about the spending package he signed last week, which raised defense and domestic spending caps for the remaining seven-and-a-half months of this fiscal year and the next. And the president had little to say about the fiscal 2019 budget blueprint his administration sent to Capitol Hill on Monday. But his top aides painted each one as game-changing documents. Continue reading “‘Crisis Budgeting’ Likely Ahead Despite White House Claim”