David, you’re quite right to note that the “threat” of a Continuing Resolution if the Omnibus bill fails is a threat mostly to Senate earmarkers, and a promise for the rest of us. Two years ago, my colleague Jim Capretta and I argued in the Weekly Standard that CRs really aren’t such a bad way to run the government, considering the alternative.
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Yuval Levin is the director of social, cultural, and constitutional studies at the American Enterprise Institute and the editor of National Affairs. His most recent book is American Covenant: How the Constitution Unified Our Nation -- and Could Again.
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