You can erase this entire section from the forum. We don't have budgets anymore. Apparently they are not needed. We just need debt ceiling debates every few months to get us by.
Granny all for it if it gets dat 2nd stimulus check to her... Budget bill moves toward final passage in Senate 17 Dec.`13 WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan budget bill that would ease some but not all of painful budget cuts that would otherwise slam the Pentagon and domestic agencies passed a pivotal test in the Senate on Tuesday.
Granny says dats more o' dem politicians spendin' more money dan we gots... GO FIGURE: Fed budget bill comes to $3M per word January 17, 2014 - WASHINGTON (AP) Talk about words more costly than gold. See also: Who Read 1,582-Page $1.1T Spending Bill? Congressman: 'Nobody Did' January 16, 2014 - -- When asked whether he read the 1,528-page, $1.1 trillion government spending bill before he voted for it yesterday, Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) said, Nobody did!
The debt ceiling doesn't negate the need for a budget. It is a bizarre law that restrains the Treasury from paying for expenditures that have already been budgeted & approved.
I didn't say the debt ceiling negated the need for a budget. I merely said, there is no budget, therefore there is no need for this particular forum. We merely have stop gap measures, because the President and Congress are too effing lazy to do their job appropriately.
Granny says ya can thank Mitch McConnell fer dat... US ON TRACK FOR NARROWEST BUDGET GAP SINCE 2008 May. 12, 2014 ~ WASHINGTON (AP) The U.S. government ran a big surplus in April, thanks to a flood of tax payments that helped keep the budget on track for the lowest annual deficit in six years.