Budget agreements won’t matter, funding obligations won’t matter, expended funds on the basis of promised reimbursement won’t matter. You really don’t get the impression the GOP is thinking through what this means for the second they’re not in control.

Sahil Kapur (sahilkapur.bsky.social): “We don’t have an appropriations process. It’s broken. It’s been broken for a while,” said Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., who sits on the Senate Appropriations Committee. He predicted that there will be CRs and rescission packages for the next four years.

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