Another Round of Continuing Resolutions—Who Loses?

The federal government’s fiscal year will end on Sept. 30, 2022. This is not a surprise. It ends on Sept. 30 every year. Despite this known turn of the fiscal calendar, it seems to catch our national and congressional leadership by surprise most years as the clock winds down and time runs out to complete annual appropriations bills, the only real must-pass legislation of the year.

As a stop gap, or bridge, or whatever we want to call it, failure to enact annual appropriations results in continuing resolutions (CRs), which extend current year funding and priorities into the next year. 

The federal government has operated under CRs in all but three of the last 46 years. The Department of Defense (DOD) has operated under CRs for 1,500 days since 2010. That is over four years of budget stagnation and uncertainty, requiring incremental, inefficient funding solutions and delays in starting new programs and innovative solutions to address our most pressing national security challenges.

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