GOVERNMENT FUNDING IS NOW CONTINUING RESOLUTIONS

There was hope that the Republican Congress would restore the Constitutionally mandated means of funding the government. That would be that a budget would be submitted, congress would put forth separate bills for each department, amendments would be made and voted upon, and a bill would be sent to the president.
This is no longer the case. We know have combined bills with not budget submitted and the funding is debated by a few people, a bill is put before congress hours before the vote, and congress will give itself praise for continuing to drive our nation into oblivion with massive debt.
Here we go again:
The House Freedom Caucus is urging Republicans to vote against the government funding package coming to the floor this week, formally staking their opposition to the bundle of bills that are meant to avoid a partial shutdown on Friday.
In an official position released Tuesday, the conservative group slammed the sprawling package — which includes six bills and is known as a “minibus” — for its exclusion of some controversial policy riders, inclusion of several earmarks, and its price tag.
The hardliners also knocked the legislation for moving as a package rather than holding votes on each of the six appropriations bills, arguing that it is one half of an omnibus spending bill — the sprawling, typically end-of-year funding measures that Republicans abhor.
And they criticized leadership’s decision to consider the package under suspension of the rules, a fast-track process that requires two-thirds support for passage and eliminates the need to first pass a procedural rule — which the right flank likely would have tanked.