Missing appropriation deadlines have consequences. It causes uncertainty in agencies and delays plans, which may increase cost to the taxpayer.
If we do nothing, though, when the cliff comes and when we run out of money, then it is everybody.
If we had the sequester across the whole thing, one, it takes pressure off of military spending.
I think from the Constitution, I think Defense would have to be done every year, but the rest of them could be biennial.
the public desperately wants you to get out of partisan attack mode and start working together to find solutions.
To me, it is sort of a sad state of affairs, and that is why I think the accumulation of waste, we do not ever ferret an...
You know, after 16 years, thousands of lives, probably a trillion dollars spent, the Afghans do not seem to be able to d...
Even if only one department had to be done every year, it would still be, I think, a good idea.
I cannot think of a better way to describe how dysfunctional Congress is with its power of the purse.
$45 million on a natural-gas gas station in the defense budget because we are greening-up Afghanistan.
I think there is an argument to be made that our national security is actually made more perilous the more we spend and ...