Additionally, H. While bipartisan agreement on H. Congress will likely postpone work on regular appropriations until after the election, setting up a government funding fight for the lame-duck session.
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Click here for more information on the importance of the decennial census to counties. With the extension, both programs would be able to make full first quarter payments to states, providing increased certainty for program operations.
In a default, the government exceeds the statutory debt limit and is unable to pay some of its creditors or other obligations. While a government shutdown would be disruptive, a government default could be disastrous. A government shutdown closes down non-essential government operations due to a lack of funding, whereas a sequester or sequestration is shorthand for the reductions in discretionary spending caps that were in place up until the most recent fiscal year that constrained the total amount of funding for annually appropriated programs.
The most recent version of sequestration, a product of the Budget Control Act BCA of , resolved the debt ceiling negotiations. The failure of the Super Committee triggered sequestration, causing discretionary spending caps to be automatically lowered for both defense and non-defense. Congress has never allowed the full sequester to take effect, passing partial sequester relief in and , and more than fully reversing the sequester in and If appropriations bills violated the increased spending caps, then across-the-board cuts would have been triggered.
What is a government shutdown? What services are affected in a shutdown and how? Is the government preparing for a shutdown? How would federal employees be affected? How and why do mandatory programs continue during a shutdown?
How many times has the government shut down? Does a government shutdown save money? How can Congress avoid a shutdown? What is a Continuing Resolution CR?
How often does Congress pass CRs? What are the disadvantages of using CRs? How is Congress addressing funding? How does a shutdown differ from a default? More information What is a government shutdown? For example, in a full shutdown: Social Security and Medicare : Checks are sent out, but benefit verification as well as card issuance would cease.
While unlikely to happen again, during the shutdown more than 10, Medicare applicants were temporarily turned away every day of the shutdown. Environmental and Food Inspection : In , the Environmental Protection Agency EPA halted site inspections for 1, different sites that included hazardous waste, drinking water, and chemical facilities, and the Food and Drug Administration FDA delayed almost inspections.
During the shutdown, the FDA restored some food inspections a few weeks into the funding lapse for products that were considered high-risk. National Parks : During the shutdown, the National Park Service turned away millions of visitors to more than parks, national monuments, and other sites. The Boehner plan would mean adopting percent of the nondefense sequester cuts for another year and nearly 60 percent of the defense cuts.
Nondefense programs have already experienced very large cuts. That reduction does not include the effects of population growth or economic growth. That puts the pre-sequester allocation about 7 percent below the average from the past decade. These spending cuts have not been kind to the U. The contraction in federal government consumption and investment has caused a direct drag on economic growth in eight of the past 10 quarters, including the past three quarters consecutively.
Although down from its peak several years ago, the unemployment rate remains greater than the level most forecasters had predicted three years ago, when Congress began cutting federal spending. And for many American families, the recession is not over. Indeed, median household income today is lower than it was when the Great Recession technically came to a close in June It is in this economic context that conservatives in Congress are demanding even more cutbacks.
The Congressional Budget Office has reported that implementing the sequester cuts in will reduce real gross domestic product, or GDP, by 0. Adding to the absurdity of considering further cuts is the simple fact that the allegedly worrisome federal fiscal situation—the stated rationale for these cuts—is not nearly as worrisome today as it once was.
More importantly, the projections of future budgets have improved dramatically over the past three years. The federal debt-to-GDP ratio was once expected to rise to unprecedented levels by the end of the decade; it is now expected to decline for the next five years and only then rising slowly, to end in at the same level it is today.
Part of the reason for the improvement in the future fiscal picture is that Congress has already cut a lot of spending. Not only are current funding levels for nondefense discretionary programs significantly below those of , but overall discretionary spending is slated to hit its lowest level on record, measured as a share of GDP, by And that is without sequestration.
In practice, these spending-cut numbers mean that that we are seriously underinvesting in key areas such as scientific research and education. That is equivalent to about 20, fewer grants for medical research. The continuing resolution would run through Dec. Centrist Democrats were frustrated that objections from some House progressives led to the exclusion of the funding. In a series of tweets, Rep. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich. The hiccup underscores the complicated path to passing the continuing resolution.
The bill would also require a report on the disposition of property, equipment and supplies that were destroyed, were taken out of Afghanistan or are still in Afghanistan in connection with the U.
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