> Isn't that what the annual budget process is about? Why do we need a separate process to allow for the borrowing to make the payments for the things that were individually authorized (often with renewals every so often) and then collectively authorized in the budget?
Well, you answered your own question. There is a separate process because the budget process has been broken in a spectacular way.
> If you don't think the programs are efficient enough as it is, the collosal waste of a government shutdown should be a definite no. Those waste money in that there's extra work to prepare for closing and to reopen, that prevents people from doing the actual work they should be doing, as well as the fact that all of the government workers unable to work because of the shutdown end up getting paid anyway.
Well, you answered your own question. There is a separate process because the budget process has been broken in a spectacular way.
> If you don't think the programs are efficient enough as it is, the collosal waste of a government shutdown should be a definite no. Those waste money in that there's extra work to prepare for closing and to reopen, that prevents people from doing the actual work they should be doing, as well as the fact that all of the government workers unable to work because of the shutdown end up getting paid anyway.
Can you quantify that?