The duck stamp act incident of early 2024 sets up two new funding deadlines on March 1 and March 8.
Short-term funding bills that keep the lights on are clearly not how the massive US government is supposed to be run.
There’s been least one short-term spending bill in all but three fiscal years since 1977, according to the Congressional Research Service.
Why use the duck stamp bill to fund the government?
Spending bills are supposed to begin in the House, and so to make this latest stopgap measure work, senators substituted the spending bill into a House-passed bill originally having to do with the duck stamp, making it possible for duck hunters to carry an electronic as opposed to paper duck stamp during the “taking of waterfowl.”Fear not for the duck hunters.
Persons:
…, Mike Johnson, Kevin McCarthy, Johnson, McCarthy, it’s, There’s
Organizations:
CNN, Republican Party, Senate, Congressional Research Service
Locations:
Washington