{"id":4035,"date":"2019-12-11T19:01:04","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T00:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=4035"},"modified":"2019-12-11T19:01:04","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T00:01:04","slug":"the-broken-budget-process-is-a-democracy-reform-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/the-broken-budget-process-is-a-democracy-reform-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"The broken budget process is a democracy reform issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Budget-US-Government-06-2019.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3998\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/permanent-appropriations-might-they-improve-the-budget-process\/budget-us-government-06-2019\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Budget-US-Government-06-2019.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1024,683\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Budget-US-Government 06-2019\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Budget-US-Government-06-2019-300x200.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Budget-US-Government-06-2019-1024x683.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3998\" src=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Budget-US-Government-06-2019-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Budget-US-Government-06-2019.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Budget-US-Government-06-2019-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Budget-US-Government-06-2019-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a>It is difficult to overstate how wrecked the federal budget process is. Late last month, President Trump signed a 30-day stopgap funding measure to dodge a government shutdown. This was the second time this autumn that Congress and the president had to resort to such a continuing resolution. Governing through short-term spending bills has become the rule in recent years, and not passing a congressional budget resolution (or spending plan) has become the new normal. The wrecked process has produced alarming results&#8230;.(<a href=\"https:\/\/thefulcrum.us\/big-picture\/the-broken-budget-process-is-a-democracy-reform-issue\">Read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is difficult to overstate how wrecked the federal budget process is. Late last month, President Trump signed a 30-day stopgap funding measure to dodge a government shutdown. This was the second time this autumn that Congress and the president had to resort to such a continuing resolution. Governing through short-term spending bills has become [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[165],"tags":[220],"class_list":["post-4035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","tag-the-fulcrum"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-135","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4036,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4035\/revisions\/4036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}