And here comes the NEXT Spending Battle
February 25, 2019Although the FY2019 spending situation has finally been resolved, another potentially protracted spending fight is already underway. Without an agreement to lift the statutory limits on how much the government can spend during FY2020, the federal government is looking at a very steep fiscal cliff and significant automatic cuts. In 2011, House and Senate negotiators came up with, and the Obama Administration agreed to, a plan that was considered so potentially draconian that no one thought that parts of the plan…