Morning Call from Truth in Accounting, November 17th
R Street
Don’t fear the continuing resolution
By Nan Swift, includes “In what is becoming an almost annual tradition, it’s unlikely that Congress will have completed its already postponed annual appropriations work by the new December 3rd deadline, making it necessary to enact another continuing resolution (CR) to avoid a government shutdown during the holiday season. CRs are far from ideal policy making, but neither are they the catastrophe that some fear. … Predictably, the biggest opposition comes from those who claim that a CR undermines our national security.”
