Ben Goddard writes in The Hill about the new taxpayer revolt in California this week. The political establishment put together a package of initiatives that it thought would fix the budget process there – but the people weren’t buying it. The only thing they passed was the measure to ban salary increases for legislators if [...]
Though we’ve been collecting and reporting information on the annual spending process, OMB Watch reports that congressional leaders may allow the process to collapse, passing only temporary spending measures until there is a new president in office.
Here’s how The Hill, a government-industry trade paper, describes the thinking:
Democrats have little incentive to try to approve more [...]