The federal budget process is actually a two step process. First the appropriate committees in the House authorize the federal government to spend money for certain programs and then other committees have to appropriate the money to be spent on the authorized programs. This hasn’t been done in years. I bring this up because I heard Chip Roy say tonight that he voted against the latest bill because although it went from 1500 pages to 116 pages it didn’t reduce any actual spending. Budgetary things that were eliminated were authorizations not appropriations and so the spending would stay the same. And as I commented earlier, at least some bs like protecting the criminal J6 committee was removed.