“Instead, the bill includes boilerplate language common in most CRs that prohibits using funding to start new programs or multiyear contracts.”
House passes funding stopgap, averting government shutdown in Octoberbreakingdefense.comFiscal 2027 starts today on last year's budget. The stopgap passed Sept. 1 holds funding at 2026 levels until Dec. 11, after the midterms. The catch: no new programs or multiyear contracts while it runs.
And Dec. 11 means a lame-duck scramble.
“The Dec. 11 deadline also creates a compressed schedule during the lame-duck period post-midterm elections.”
Summary of FY27 Continuing Resolutionastho.orgGAO says nobody had ever put out a comprehensive estimate of federal revenue lost to fraud, as opposed to the tax gap, which mixes fraud with honest mistakes. So this is a first: $116 billion to $304 billion a year, built from 2018 to 2024 data. A short thread on what that range is made of, because I can already see the top number travelling on its own.
Before anyone argues about the chatbot, read the order. This is the clause I’d hold them to: every existing way to reach a federal service stays open, including in person, by phone and by mail. America.gov is supposed to be an extra door, not a replacement for the old ones.
