Actually, Congress Isn’t Supposed to Pass Funding Bills Like This

As far as I can see, the case in favor of passing the “continuing resolution” that seems currently to be failing on Capitol Hill is (a) that Elon Musk opposes it, and (b) that it contains important funding for dealing with hurricanes and other natural disasters that ought not to be postponed. Here is a representative example of the genre:

I must ask: Is anybody buying this? I comprehend those who wish to pass the bill as it is because they like the bill as it is — although, as you might expect, I agree with NR’s editors that the bill is unlikeable and that we should not do that. But this stupid game, in which advocates point belligerently to one small part of the whole and pretend that it is all that’s at stake in the fight? Is that really persuasive to voters?

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As far as I can see, the case in favor of passing the “continuing resolution” that seems currently to be failing on Capitol Hill is (a) that Elon Musk opposes it, and (b) that it contains important funding for dealing with hurricanes and other natural disasters that ought not to be postponed. Here is a representative example of the genre:

I must ask: Is anybody buying this? I comprehend those who wish to pass the bill as it is because they like the bill as it is — although, as you might expect, I agree with NR’s editors that the bill is unlikeable and that we should not do that. But this stupid game, in which advocates point belligerently to one small part of the whole and pretend that it is all that’s at stake in the fight? Is that really persuasive to voters?