Make it illegal to have a government shutdown. If no budget is passed by October 1st, then the government automatically runs on last year's budget until there is a budget. Meanwhile, sequester the members of Congress, the way a jury is sequestered; that is, no one leaves until a budget is passed. Government agencies wasted so much time and energy preparing for a possible shutdown. We should have been working on our
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Make it illegal to have a government shutdown. If no budget is passed by October 1st, then the government automatically runs on last year's budget until there is a budget. Meanwhile, sequester the members of Congress, the way a jury is sequestered; that is, no one leaves until a budget is passed. Government agencies wasted so much time and energy preparing for a possible shutdown. We should have been working on our missions.
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