Over the last 40 years, the American budget system has become increasingly inefficient and detrimental to the American People. The biggest issue within the budget system is the occurrence of government shutdowns and their increasing severity over time. Government shutdowns are a uniquely dangerous phenomenon that directly affects all Americans, hurting public workers, public infrastructure, removing social services, and creating chaos all across the country. The unprecedented harm caused by government shutdowns is well known and the shutdowns themselves are entirely avoidable, yet they continue to not only happen but increase in magnitude. I theorize that these shutdowns are caused by an increase in political polarization, faulty budget...
The budget forms the legal basis of government spending. If a budget is not in place at the beginnin...
Actions of the federal government cost money. Legislative processes that specify the amounts and pur...
The U.S. government has been in a state of shutdown since last Tuesday, and there seems little likel...
When the United States government undergoes a partial shutdown, millions of Americans are forced to ...
In nearly every area of law and governance, default policies exist when lawmakers cannot pass new le...
When federal agencies and programs lack appropriated funding, they experience a funding gap. Under t...
The shutdown of the U.S. government after failure to pass a budget is exceptional by global standard...
[Excerpt] When federal government agencies and programs lack budget authority, they experience a “fu...
The current shutdown of the U.S. federal government is the longest in its history. It began on Decem...
In the current political atmosphere, the American public has been subjected to the distrust and misf...
Recent events raise the question of whether two near-failures in what scholars call the Fiscal Cons...
The object of research is the management of practical issues of the implementation of fiscal policy ...
When the federal government shut down just before Christmas in 2018, it did not reopen until January...
The annual appropriations process in the United States is broken. In only four of the past 41 years ...
This article analyzes the legal rules governing operations of the federal government of the United S...
The budget forms the legal basis of government spending. If a budget is not in place at the beginnin...
Actions of the federal government cost money. Legislative processes that specify the amounts and pur...
The U.S. government has been in a state of shutdown since last Tuesday, and there seems little likel...
When the United States government undergoes a partial shutdown, millions of Americans are forced to ...
In nearly every area of law and governance, default policies exist when lawmakers cannot pass new le...
When federal agencies and programs lack appropriated funding, they experience a funding gap. Under t...
The shutdown of the U.S. government after failure to pass a budget is exceptional by global standard...
[Excerpt] When federal government agencies and programs lack budget authority, they experience a “fu...
The current shutdown of the U.S. federal government is the longest in its history. It began on Decem...
In the current political atmosphere, the American public has been subjected to the distrust and misf...
Recent events raise the question of whether two near-failures in what scholars call the Fiscal Cons...
The object of research is the management of practical issues of the implementation of fiscal policy ...
When the federal government shut down just before Christmas in 2018, it did not reopen until January...
The annual appropriations process in the United States is broken. In only four of the past 41 years ...
This article analyzes the legal rules governing operations of the federal government of the United S...
The budget forms the legal basis of government spending. If a budget is not in place at the beginnin...
Actions of the federal government cost money. Legislative processes that specify the amounts and pur...
The U.S. government has been in a state of shutdown since last Tuesday, and there seems little likel...