{"id":5653,"date":"2026-01-26T20:10:01","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T01:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=5653"},"modified":"2026-01-26T20:10:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T01:10:01","slug":"whats-wrong-with-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/whats-wrong-with-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s Wrong with Congress?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Public-Discourse.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"653\" height=\"128\" data-attachment-id=\"5654\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/whats-wrong-with-congress\/public-discourse-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Public-Discourse.png\" data-orig-size=\"653,128\" 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=\"Public Discourse\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Public-Discourse-300x59.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Public-Discourse.png\" src=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Public-Discourse.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5654\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Public-Discourse.png 653w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Public-Discourse-300x59.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 653px) 100vw, 653px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 119th Congress returned to the U.S. Capitol recently. They have an immense amount of work to get done, policy matters that they should have addressed last year. Top on the list is completing the federal budget process for the current fiscal year, which began on October 1, 2025. It has passed only six of the twelve spending bills. The remaining half-dozen spending laws are funded by a continuing resolution that expires on February 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes, you read that correctly. The country may experience another federal government shutdown only a few months after it endured a forty-three-day shutdown. This is to say nothing of the habit of Congress&#8230;. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepublicdiscourse.com\/2026\/01\/100016\/\">Read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 119th Congress returned to the U.S. Capitol recently. They have an immense amount of work to get done, policy matters that they should have addressed last year. Top on the list is completing the federal budget process for the current fiscal year, which began on October 1, 2025. It has passed only six of [&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":[160],"tags":[239],"class_list":["post-5653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","tag-public-discourse"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-1tb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5653","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=5653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5655,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5653\/revisions\/5655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}