Why the Threat of Government Shutdowns Keeps Happening | WSJ
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- It appears Congress is poised to avert a government shutdown just hours before the deadline. In every other country, if a government agency doesn’t have a budget for the new year, they just use last year’s. But in the U.S., Congress needs to pass a new budget every single year or agencies have to shut down.
Add in the lack of other opportunities to pass laws, a dysfunctional budget process and polarizing politics and… you have the threat of Congress not completing their most basic task nearly every year. WSJ explains.
0:00 Possible government shutdown
0:17 History of shutdowns
0:53 Appropriation bills
2:18 Budget process
2:59 Political ideologies
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Here is an idea: if they don't pass the spending bill by end of second quarter for the next year, stop paying them salary and benefits.
They're too rich to care about paychecks. There should be a law that if they shut down the government, they automatically get fired and someone else gets elected to take their spot.
I agree, even though I know it won't work - just the principle of them getting paid while other federal workers are not just seems wrong.
@@djp1234I think you'd be in favor of switching to a UK-style parliamentary system.
@@jeffbenton6183 yes, everyone in this country would be in favor of that, but we're not a democracy, so we can't change it.
Members of congress have constitutionally-protected pay. Because of course they do.
It’s really depressing that a government as advanced as the US cannot even do the bare minimum that is to pass a budget.
“advanced” 😂
Their job is to SERVE the people, not to be on the payroll of the Happy Few. If they don't do the job they swore and paid to do, sack them promptly.
it always happens VERY DRAMATICALLY every year, and they solve it at the very last minute. the news stations love this time of year😆
That’s because it is actually a big problem if our government grinds to a stop. The politicians are playing Chicken until they can’t call the bluff any longer and it’s very annoying
Fr😂
Pass a constitutional amendment for a balance budget with the punishment of no pay for any elected officials. It would never happen again.
Unfortunately, Congress would be the one to start or affirm that process, and they wouldn’t do that to themselves
You're naive to think this would ever be passed. Politicians are some of the only people who decide their own salary, some good-intentioned elected officials might consider voting for something like this, but most are spoiled and opportunistic cowards just trying to line their own pockets.
Even if they did pass it, politicians have other ways to make money. So this wouldn't work.
A balanced budget all the time is a terrible idea.
It's like if I lost my job because AI replaced all the engineers and I went back to school to retrain in another field. Or if I decided I wanted to get my MBA and took a break from working. Or when my kids go to college.
And it's even worse for a government. When there is a recession and people and companies are belt tightening, the government becomes the only entity that can break the cycle and get spending going again.
Government borrowing is healthy at a macroeconomic level. Plus the USA is at only 122% debt to gdp. To buy a house I'm allowed to borrow 250% of my GDP (salary). All these threats of government shutdowns is worse for the US government financially than the debt itself. The shutdowns got the US bond rating downgraded so that it is more expensive to borrow.
It would be nice if incoming elected officials had to put all their wealth into a trust managed by a third party and were prohibited from touching their wealth (without trustee permission) until they left office. Remember the good old days when public servants were selected at random and served for a year after dokimasia? Minus the fact that only applied to men.
If you think politicians got their money from their salary, I have a bridge to lobby you.
Maybe having more than just two parties would be better...
Support ranked choice voting in your state!
Maybe take it further. No parties whatsoever.
With how voting works in the US it will always boil down to two parties. You can start with 20 parties. Overtime, they will reduce down to just two left.
@@Cyberbully34let's gooooo
How do they get to keep their jobs if they don’t reach deadlines? How come they get to be treated differently when ANY one of us would face disciplinary action at work for not meeting deadlines?
When lawmakers can't agree on budgets or policies, it can lead to funding gaps and shutdowns.
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This doesn't happen in other countries
Yes
1. What would have been really interesting in this segment is to explain. How do we get to the point with our leaders challenge? This is a government shut down because one party is fighting internally. The other party isn’t even involved 😂. And they’re fighting over the short term 30 day agreement created to buy more time to settle on a longer agreement. This is one of the most ludicrous occurrences ever!
I have been asking the same question. Thanks
Appreciate this story, thank you for highlighting! Albeit depressing to live in such a polarized us vs them world, which seems to only get worse 😔
This is just a mess
I hope it better soon 🙏
Broken Govs do Broken Things.
People aint buying it no more
I can hear my grandfather wishing that we could “fire congress…out of a cannon.” Lol
But seriously, we need a better system. This causes death and decay of our country. :-(
Loved that non-metric system map
About 42 days, from now, we will be right back, here.
Wrong. Denmark does the same with budgets.
Because we have a 2-Party political system, and 2 is an even number. Such a dumb system... smh
It’s what the founders didn’t want
We effectively have a 2-party system in the UK, but we don't have this issue. same for other 2-party systems as far as I know. they do cause problems, but they don't cause this specific problem.
Gotta fill the void between Prime Day and Black Friday sales
It's like we forgot how to be successful.
It could also be that we are too successful and they're actually in denial.
Maybe their goal is to cause pain until we the people submit. Like the police did to George Floyd, they have their knee on our backs.
I noticed how government officials like hearing that US citizens hate to work. The reality is we're constantly fighting for work. Why do they behave like this?
Life in America has been extremely difficult over the last 23 years! I've had enough! Why can't they realize they have achieved submission a long time ago?
There's no need to beat us to the ground! The US government owns us, and I will do whatever I'm told to. Just tell me.
They want your past. Future kids and kids future.
That's all they want.
@walsterdoomit I don't have kids and can't afford to drive anywhere. Dating isn't possible. I can't afford to have a conversation.
I was in an accident, and insurance companies don't give you what you pay for. It wasn't my fault either. I've literally been screwed back together.
The insurance company actually threatened me not to go back to work. They made it clear that they wouldn't cover my medical expenses if I did.
This is it. I'm saying it as clearly as possible, I'm submitting.
very simple why we always face this shutdown issue!
our system itself is faulty, but we dont admit it and unwilling to improve it!
a good system will not have so many homeless!
a good system will not have such degraded education!
a good system will not have a healthcare system that common people cannot pay for!
a good system will not have such broken infrastructure like a 3rd world country!
You have not seen broken infrastructure in a "3rd world country" before.
@@BlueHawkPictures17
hmmm...
i worked internationally thru a p&g funded program to help them build the internet. also i backpacked all over the world!
i read thousands of books and traveled thousands of roads!
ex: i seen alexander and his armies descendants.
here is a brief history of our infrastructure: our infrastructure dates back to the great depression!
do you know why?!
john keynes was invited by fdr to discuss how to fix the usa economy. john told fdr to hire people to dig a hole and hire people to fill the hole. basically keep the economy running without stopping. when fdr saw the progress of john's idea. he implemented the great infrastructure project to build roads.
since then we just bandage the infrastructure without really renovating it, which is why our roads are so bad!
do you know why we just keep bandaging our roads?!
cause we use excuses to spend all the money into the military to start wars, so the top 1% and the gov people can make blood money instead of spending the money into our infrastructure, education, healthcare, homeless, etc.
imagine all the money we spent in ukraine that are use internally!!!
the usa spent the most money into the military, but we cannot compete with china! so what happen to all our money?!
most of the money are pocket by the top 1% and the gov people!
did you know that we failed our hypersonic missile again, but china hypersonic missile can reach the usa?
did you know that china sold laser weapons in saudi military summit?
did you know that china proved they can detect our undetectable sub by demo it, which was why our sub crashed?
china only spent a fraction into their military, but their military is so much more advance than ours!
please dont even get me started on ip theft, if you wanna start, you better be well prepare or dont bother replying.
should i keep going on pointing out how corrupted is our gov and why we are in this mess?
Cant the government create a strong budget like temporary supply to countries such as ukraine its like your donating soo much money but you get poor after each donation
0:27 Apostrophe yoinked.
0:43 “animated on screen/highlighted” lol
so even if thr is money they cannot expend it until the bill is made?
Wait!! Where dose Americans Taxpayeers monyes go?
Yet they just passed a 14 billion dollar bill to support a foreign country. Wow!!!!!!
Government shutdowns, so nerve-wracking! 😥
I don’t rely on your government
So the government can make money selling puts then cancelling at the last minute
Signs of a thriving nation and democracy.
The Mexican peso is getting stronger and the dollar weaker. What reality are you living in?
@@Jonathan-un7uq That's the joke.
Articles that are inconsistent with the current govt or situation should be amended asap
1. from today till sunday 2. 65 degrees air conditioning 3 from 10am-10:30pm
Maybe that is a question you should ask "Chy-na."
When you show the graph on politicians becoming more liberal/conservative. It shows Conservatives become more far right. more so than liberals going far left
Fiscal conservatives are near extinction. Everyone likes government blubber in Lawyerland.
The liberals in the US today are moderate / conservatives in other countries. It's insane how much further right US is today compared to decades ago.
Good. If you want an all left government move to Venezuela or Zimbabwe.
@@NotKimiRaikkonenat this rate, we're going to have segregated drinking fountains again.
@@Jonathan-un7uq those were introduced by democrats.
WSJ, you should be ashamed of the y-axis on that graph you made. 😢
Ratings
We should try up rather than down
Fast and faster till boom!
This is where all other democracies would form a new centre or centre left/right party and form corden solitaries around the fringe representatives.
Because each party need to channel the budget to corporates that donate/lobby aka bribe them😅
Government shutdown.
Politicians ultimate bargaining chip.
Not really. They keep telling themselves that, but the sort of concessions they get are always paltry, and it often hurts them in future elections anyway.
don't pass the politician's salaries
But are they really a threat?
Is the way to control the people
What a weird country.
Seriously? Using the word threat?
Puh-leeze.
So politicians can get raises
Just what is a Government Shutdown and is it good?
nah, goverment is just like, ah yeah the budget to keep the government running is a future me problem, imma keeping procrasting and watch the basketball
Yet these crooks still get paid, how interesting. I wish I could stall and mess around at my job and still get paid, or even walk out and not work because of certain co workers,
The American unity is gone. We could and should remove all these crooks
LOL sounds like an American problem…
Spending cones naturally to most governments. Debt limit increase is the only time they are forced to confront their proclivity to spend. If they keep raising it autimatically even this small debate will disappear. Public should support even more debates surrounding debt ceiling increases rather than giving into democrats narrative that it is counter-productive.
Bruh Im a person who is living in US with my visa and if shutdown happens then my green card will be pushed back years again
Money Money Money, always funny in the Senate world.
Because the old guard is dying too fast and the young ones are too stupid plus not enough experience in the real world to know how to run a government properly.
two party system ... are there other democracy other in usa there only have that
Not sure how the US functions..
Because they have windows
3:05
Wrong representation.
The blue needs to be on top to reflect that it's up
And th4 red needs to be at the bottom to show that it's going down
And th4 scale needs a minor change as well
To make my idea more accurate
Also - what the? “Democrats are getting more liberal”? The chart showed a practically straight line.
Republicans defs trending more conservative on the chart, though.
Remember when 6 trillion dollars was supposed to ast 2 years now 45 days till next debt ceiling
They’ll figure it out always do
So basically if you work for the government and there is a shutdown you stay at home until the new year ?
sounds great. except you don't get paid. And people in many government jobs still have to do their jobs.
@@tazzer9 Why would they go to work without getting paid ? I think it is totally illegal . If you bring this to court your employer will get sued.
@@kingk2405 I can very much assure you people in the US military still have to rock up to work otherwise they go to jail. Numerous other places which have required Federal workers still have to turn up to work
We need youngest blood in the congress old people they leave in old rules ... and old worlds
Yup, couldn’t agree more
But the young ones are the ones shutting down the government. The old ones are the ones who are trying to compromise.
WSJ 😃
They like to make new laws, hey here one, work on this one
No congress should be older then 75 or 80 years old...
I know that, and every single year they play tha same game I was talking about making a new law about age restrictions to be elected to be in congress or presidency.... not to young or old
There's already a lower limit, and yet the ones trying to shut down the gov't are usually in their 30s and 40s. An upper age limit might solve other problems, but it certainly won't solve this one. It's the older ones who are trying to compromise.
That requires an Amendment to the Constitution, not just simple Legislation.
Passing an Amendment is a different game than Passing an Act of Congress.
@@Ryan_Christopher Good point. The late Justice A. Scalia once calculated that as few as 2% of the US constitution can block a constitutional amendment. It's also the sort of thing that would not go without opposition. Alexander Hamilton argued against this idea in the Federalist Papers, and his reasoning is just as sound now as it was then. A better idea might be to end Congressional seniority, which makes each representative and Senator effectively worth more the longer they've been in office. This is especially important for US senators from small states who feel they have to stay in office as long as possible just to make sure their states are adequately represented. Such a change wouldn't even require a new law - each chamber can just change their internal rules on the matter.
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they press the reset button and print more money and change names.
Because our politicians face no accountability for the money that isnt theirs they throw around all year to this country and that one. YOU get a billion, and you get a billion, and YOU get a billion.
Can we please just have another revolution lol
Because we’re living beyond our means,,,,,,duh
Any serious discussion of dysfunction in Congress must mention the Hastert Rule which excludes the Democrats from participating in legislation
true yeah dems should be more involved, itd be great to go into debt more
@@systemickpopism7383 Since Reagan, very time there's been a GOP prez the debt has exploded
Is the host single
two party system moment
3:58 lies
Cause we allow big babies to run our country. 😂
Let the Federal government be shut down for awhile. Many companies have to lay off workers when their operations are unprofitable. When does that happen for government? It should.
The US military, hardly an fiscally efficient branch of government, is the ONLY Federal branch that has ever been downsized as a result of accomplishing a mission.
The US Military is not its own branch of government. The Country ain’t run by a Ruling Junta.
The Military Departments fall under the Executive, which IS a branch of the US Government. The Executive can Expand or Contract the Armed Forces as needed. The Legislature just has to sign-off on the plans.
@Ryan_Christopher You're right. I should have written "department" of the federal government.
But the point remains. Federal departments are rarely, if ever, downsized. And rarer still, is a department reduced, or eliminated because it has achieved it's mission.
And it's the favorite media lie every time
it is government holiday. does government shut down?
No solutions right WSJ?
Did y'all notice... the part about renaming post offices was renaming them after people. I'm assuming here that this is a favor to donors. It bothers me that non-germane things sneak into actual useful bills. Didn't we use to call this pork-barrel politics?
I’m really unsure why we actually need more laws every year. I think we probably have enough by now. Maybe they should start repealing some.
Say you don't understand legislation without saying you don't understand legislation
There is new technology every year. There is a changing geopolitical landscape every year. There’s new medicine. Etc. Just one reason there would be new laws.
@@tokenblkguy00 Healthcare has hardly changed in 30 years despite all of these new laws.
@@michaelschaefer1904 This is so untrue. 30 years ago, Electronic Medical Record system was very new and nonexistent. MRI was still still being used in the lab, and not hospitals. Radiation therapy, PET, were extremely exotic, and inaccessible to anyone except the most wealthy. There's new vaccine technologies (such as mRNA), there's new cancer treatments, and now we're entering the era of wearable medical devices.
So no, healthcare absolutely changed a lot in the past 30 years, and new legislations are required to keep up with them.
@@tokenblkguy00 What new laws do we need on a yearly basis to cover new medicines? Or new technologies? What new technologies come out on a yearly basis that are so radical that they require new laws to deal with them?
Government shuts down we should stop paying taxes.
It's discretionary not acts. As the rule of law of the USA, Congress must be hearing and get some evidences to prove it. Even Senate have evidences to prove it, Congress can't shutdown president, must be cheque and balance to get the responsibility of budget from president and his cabinet.
That's what happens when you have a two-party system running the congress.
They should've just admited it, Our system is fxkk; we should start fixing it now.
Wow!! Instead of the government department size themselves according to the available budget, they expect that the government to keep giving them more money!!
And WSJ is also blaming the congress instead of promoting downsizing so that the department fits their budgets
It's always amazing to see 'the Greatest Country of the Earth' is a mess of obsolete rules and bureaucracy that is governed pretty much with tribal traditions at this point rather than modern laws.
How is Switzerland a mess? lol
I don't see how Finland is a mess?
crooks in congress. enough said
Democracy's going great.
The only thing that comforts me about a government failing us to the point of apathy is knowing that their idols will crumple with it
They're too stupid to sustain their own evil
You know what we regular people can do? We can try to be kinder to each other, and to not judge so harshly and quickly.
Thank republicans for this nonsense.
Because one party acts like 5 year olds throwing a tantrum
There's really one only party regarding fiscal matters. They both like bribery beyond measure.
It’s both
@@antoniobabb1938"erm but both sides." do you work for cnn?
@@antoniobabb1938 It's predominately one party. Todays GQP has no idea how to compromise. They're like spoiled little brats and tRump has told them it's OK to whine and seek revenge (which is what this was). MTG and Gaetz just wanted to punish people. Oh yea, forgot our truck stop escort Boebert.
@@boiwaif why would I do that garbage of a network? 😂
idc that there is a split in congress everyone should stop getting money until they address the problems america is having I dont understand why both sides act like toddlers trying to have their way fully just comprise
they have 1 job, cant they do it? if they have multiple jobs, they better do this one too.
Eliminate appropriations and debt ceiling
Agree on debt ceiling - but what would we replace appropriations with?
USA NUMBER 1!!! IN DEBT😅😅😂😂
The American political system is actually mental. The voting system isn't even really a system and the way budgets are handled is mind blowing. I'm not sure how they get anything done.
They don't get anything done...only waste the taxpayers money trying to investigate and impeach each other and on unnecessary Wars, Then sit back and count their special interest money while the country falls down around us.