From WSJopinion: Congress’s budget process is broken. Here’s what we can do to incentivize members of both parties to shape up.
If the Legislature in my home state of Wisconsin fails to pass the next year’s appropriation bills, we don’t shut government agencies down. We fund them at the previous year’s appropriation levels. Doesn’t that make sense?
That common-sense approach should apply in Washington, but it doesn’t. By the time I arrived in 2011, Congress’s appropriations process was completely broken. The U.S. has since had three government shutdowns, passed 34 continuing resolutions to avoid shutdowns, raised or suspended the debt ceiling nine...
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