{"id":1779193,"date":"2022-12-18T06:30:11","date_gmt":"2022-12-18T11:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1779193"},"modified":"2022-12-18T09:33:45","modified_gmt":"2022-12-18T14:33:45","slug":"michael-reagan-discontinuing-the-big-game-in-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/michael-reagan-discontinuing-the-big-game-in-dc\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Reagan: Discontinuing the Big Game in DC"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmichael-reagan-discontinuing-the-big-game-in-dc%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1779193&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/e723cd21-dfb8-4ceb-b96d-d4eedc64e448.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>It\u2019s time to play the Big Game again in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s time again for members of Congress to perform one of their most important duties.<\/p>\n<p>But instead of passing a federal budget for the coming year, the senators and House members will take a knee and pass what\u2019s called a \u201cContinuing Resolution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A \u201cCR,\u201d as Washington insiders like to call it, is a temporary funding bill that averts a federal government shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>It allows the massive over-spending of the federal government to continue even though the politicians in Congress and the White House have failed to come up with a real budget that will fund the federal government in the next fiscal year.<\/p>\n<p>By law, Congress is supposed to do that basic duty by the end of September.<\/p>\n<p>But Congress, as you have probably sensed, has managed to do that only three times in the last 47 years, most recently in 1997.<\/p>\n<p>That goes a long way toward explaining why the annual federal budget is now in the $6.2 trillion range and our national debt is around $32 trillion.<\/p>\n<p>CRs are more common than Super Bowls. There have been 47 of them just since 2010, some lasting as long as six months.<\/p>\n<p>They are the legislative equivalent of kicking the federal budget can down the road.<\/p>\n<p>CRs allow Washington\u2019s lawmakers to put off any tough decisions about what to spend and what to spend on \u2013 you know, whether to build another \u201cBridge to Nowhere,\u201d throw another $10 billion to process illegal immigrants at the border, or rubber stamp another $37 billion military Care Package to Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most common dirty tricks in the Big Game playbook is waiting until right before a holiday or summer recess to call for a vote on a Continuing Resolution.<\/p>\n<p>That way, as what is going on now with the CR that expires Dec. 23, members of Congress are forced to pass the CR and keep the government running so they don\u2019t miss Christmas dinner with their families.<\/p>\n<p>If various members of Congress have to be bribed with federal goodies for their districts or states to pass the CR, so be it.<\/p>\n<p>Both parties play their own versions of the Big Game.<\/p>\n<p>They wait until the last minute, pass a gigantic piece of legislation no one reads and then go home for the holidays pretending they\u2019ve done something good for the country.<\/p>\n<p>The Big Game doesn\u2019t just help politicians, though; it hurts America.<\/p>\n<p>It busts the federal budget, adds to the national debt, creates inflation and proves four or five times a year that the people we send to Washington don\u2019t really give a damn about us or the country.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the political cowardice, fiscal irresponsibility and moral and ethical failings of our so-called \u201cleaders,\u201d America is not just living beyond its budget, it has no budget.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve been living on CRs forever.<\/p>\n<p>Bill Clinton was the last president to balance the budget \u2013 and he wouldn\u2019t have done it if Newt Gingrich and his guys hadn\u2019t taken over the House and made him.<\/p>\n<p>If I was Speaker of the House, I\u2019d tell the president, very simply, \u201cI\u2019m not going to pass a CR or pass a federal budget for 2023 until you close the border.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Democrats promised my father in 1986 that they\u2019d close the border if he would grant amnesty to immigrants living here illegally. He\u2019s in the grave and still waiting.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans will take control of the House next month.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll see if they play the Big Game the usual D.C. way or whether they\u2019re going to rise up and fight for conservative principles, instead of participating in get-along games with Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>If Kevin McCarthy doesn\u2019t have the you-know-whats to do that, Republicans need to ask Santa Claus to bring them another quarterback or a better game plan \u2013 a winning one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s time to play the Big Game again in Washington.It\u2019s time again for members of Congress to perform one of their most important duties.But instead of passing a federal budget<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1779196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[5458,10057,6528,5177,5634,3819],"class_list":["post-1779193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-bongino","tag-discontinuing","tag-game","tag-michael","tag-reagan","tag-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1779193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1779196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1779193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1779193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1779193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}