CSPAN Washington Journal Maya MacGuineas Discusses The Federal Budget April 26, 2017
Would be allowed to run without a budget. The biggest economy in the world is operating without a budget all too often . I should be a shocker right there. It is a sign we need to fix the process. But even only do get it done, the Appropriations Bills and what they are that is the passing of the funding bills that fund our discretionary portion of the budget, one third of the budget. And you do have bills for different pieces of that. Two thirds of the budget is on the automatic pilot, Social Security and medicare, they dont go through the appropriations process. Even we do have a budget we do...