The temporary funding patch pattern in Congress

We’re a few weeks away from facing the next fiscal crisis — whether or not to lift the debt limit. Congress and the president will go around and around about that. And then, in early December, there’s going to be yet another one.

The current continuing resolution — that’s budget speak for short-term funding mechanism — expires on December 11. The thing is, continuing resolutions are supposed to be the exception, not the rule that they’ve become. And that is no way to run a business, let alone a country.

Darren Samuelsohn, senior policy reporter at Politico, spent some time looking into what happens when we lurch from budget crisis to budget crisis in his piece Welcome to CR Hell.

Click the audio player above to hear our interview with Samuelsohn.