Congress almost never approves a budget each year because it only takes 40 Senators out of 100 to stop it. The Democrats, despite trillion dollar deficits, always want more spending except for military spending because they want to use needed military funds to add to social programs. So Democrats never approve of budgets with spending cuts in them and Republicans never approve of budgets with giant spending increases that Democrats like to pass. The end result is a series of temporary "continuing spending resolutions" each year that must be approved by Congress. Democrats love these because it takes last year's spending and automatically adds more to it. Never any cuts to spending that way; always increases to spending. Republicans can technically fight for spending cuts for these continuing spending resolutions but Democrats won't give it to them. The only option is to shut the government down by not passing spending resolutions to put pressure on Democrats to compromise. However, the fake news media always falsely blames Republicans for government shut downs, making it political suicide and the Democrats know this. We need a new method - a Constitutional Amendment that forces government to pass an annual budget or else the budget is automatically cut by 10% from last year except for Social Security which goes up by the inflation rate. No temporary continuing spending resolutions allowed. Only then will both parties be equally motivated to compromise.
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