The American Prospect, January 3, 2024, Untangling The Government Funding Mess.
A Congress that has operated on short deadlines and chaos since its inception last January heads into 2024 with more short deadlines and chaos.
In fact, our heroes missed a crucial deadline with the passage of the new year. The debt limit deal had a condition that, if Congress did not pass all of its full-year spending bills by December 31, a “trigger” would kick in that would automatically cut all defense and nondefense discretionary spending programs across the board by 1% from fiscal year 2023 levels. We’re operating under a continuing resolution right now, so that trigger has been pulled.
