CD288: Government Funding 101

Congressional Dish

Jennifer Briney

News, Congress, Government, Politics, Corporations

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🗓️ 6 March 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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As we enter another round of government funding drama, let’s learn the basics. In this episode, we examine how the process is supposed to work, spot the tell tale signs that something has gone wrong, and decipher all of the DC wonky words that make the appropriations process seem more complicated than it really is. Please Support Congressional Dish – Quick Links Contribute monthly or a lump sum via Support Congressional Dish via (donations per episode) Send Zelle payments to: [email protected] Send Venmo payments to: @Jennifer-Briney Send Cash App payments to: $CongressionalDish or [email protected] Use your bank’s online bill pay function to mail contributions to: Please make checks payable to Congressional Dish Thank you for supporting truly independent media! Background Sources Appropriations February 8, 2023. House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations. Mandatory vs. Discretionary Spending FiscalData.Treasury.gov. Updated October 24, 2022. Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Government Shutdown February 26, 2024. Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. Omnibus Bills Andrew Taylor. December 22, 2020. AP News. Earmarks February 9, 2005. Taxpayers for Common Sense. Retrieved from the Wayback Machine version from October 25, 2008. What Happens Next Jamie Dupree. March 5, 2024. Regular Order. Audio Sources House Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Defense January 12, 2022 Witness: Mike McCord, Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) Clips 29:51 Mike McCord: First, as I believe you’re all aware a full year CR, we reduce our funding level below what we requested and what we believe we need. On the surface at the department level as a whole, the reduction to our accounts would appear to be about a billion dollars below our request, which would be significant. Even if that was the only impact. The actual reduction in practice will be much greater. Because we would have significant funding that’s misaligned, trapped or frozen in the wrong places and unusable because we don’t have the tools or flexibilities to realign funds on anything like the scam we would need to fix all the problems that the chiefs are going to describe. 30:27 Mike McCord: I know all of you are very familiar with the fact that virtually all military construction projects in each year’s budget including the FY 22 budget are new starts that cannot be executed under a CR. Music by Editing Production Assistance

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0:00.0	We've seen all kinds of dirty dingleberries during the era of congressional dish.
0:05.0	Like the dingleberry that legalized bank bailouts of both foreign and domestic banks,
0:10.7	or the treaty with Mexico that was approved via Dingellberry that opened up huge parts of the Gulf of Mexico to deep water oil drilling not long after the deep water horizon disaster.
0:20.0	And we routinely see things like spying provisions and other provisions from like the Patriot Act being renewed without any debate.
0:29.0	And of course, there are so many corporate favors.
0:34.0	And that's actually why I think there's no real incentive or attempt by the leaders of either party
0:39.0	to fix the clearly broken appropriations process, because they can get things into law that
0:44.6	benefit their corporate donors that would be controversial and much harder to pass on their
0:49.2	own.
0:50.8	Disfunction in Congress has become a tactic.
0:53.0	I am so damn tired of being lied to.
0:58.0	I don't think I can't deny it anymore.
1:09.0	You can't stick to your story if you think it flies.
1:17.0	But I'm not gonna buy it anymore.
1:24.0	Hello, my friend, and thank you for listening to the 288 episode of Congressional dish.
1:29.0	I'm your host Jennifer Briny.
1:31.0	And as I speak to you, now it is five months and a few days into fiscal year
1:36.8	2024 and Congress has not appropriated funding for discretionary spending yet.
1:41.6	We're currently operating under a
1:43.3	continuing resolution and this month's congressional agenda is going to be
1:47.2	dominated by news and drama about the minibus bills that need to be signed
1:51.8	by March 8th in March 22nd.
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