Senate Democrats don’t have much trust in their colleagues across the aisle to stand up to President Donald Trump in the appropriations process. The administration isn’t making the congressional GOP’s job any easier.
“I’m at the place right now where I can’t trust anything that’s really being said right now on the other side,” Sen. Andy Kim told NOTUS on Thursday, about 12 hours after the Senate narrowly passed its Trump-led rescissions package.
As usual, Congress needs to fund the government before Sept. 30. The conventional process for approving government spending, through appropriations bills, is functionally broken, eroded through decades of polarization and, more recently, the Trump administration’s efforts to cut spending and ignore Congress’ power of the purse.