NewMediaJournal: Federal Funding May Be Done in Two Week Increments

NewMediaJournal: Federal Funding May Be Done in Two Week Increments: "Congress could end up funding the government in two-week increments to avert a shutdown because lawmakers can't agree on a long-term budget plan.

Lawmakers passed a two-week budget on March 4 and are now facing a new deadline, March 18. Yet Republicans and Democrats are no closer to settling on a plan to pay for the remaining six months of the fiscal year, despite intervention by the White House.

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA), said if no long-term deal is reached by March 18, Republicans are prepared to keep passing two-week funding measures that would cut $2 billion per week. At that rate, Republicans would still be able to achieve their campaign pledge to cut $100 billion from President Obama's proposed 2011 budget, Cantor said."


Editor's Note: The reason the 112th Congress has to address the issue of the 111th Congress's budget in the first place was because Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi didn't do their jobs in passing a budget to begin with. So, Mr. Reid, stow the "worst bill in history" over-the-top, irresponsible, hyper-partisan political rhetoric

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