Welcome to the Reason Roundtable, your weekly dose of Libertarian insight into the decidedly

non-libertarian world we all live in.

I am Matt Welch, joined by Nic Gillespie, Peter Suterman, and Katherine Mangu, Ward, Happy

Hanukkah, everyone.

Howdy.

Happy Monday.

Hey, Matt.

So, uh, President Joseph, uh, Roland Echai on the second on Friday signed a stop-gup,

stop-gup.

Wow.

The hell.

A steppy graph, government funding bill designed to give congressional negotiators until

this Friday, December 23rd, uh, to wrap up work on a reported $1.7 trillion crominibus

package that would keep the federal bureaucracy in business until we do the same exact stupid

exercise next year.

Lawmakers report that they are just hammering out the final details of the so-called must-pass

mega bill, saying in statement last week that they had, quote, reached a bipartisan,

bicameral framework that should allow us to finish an omnibus appropriation spill that

can pass the house and send it and be signed into law by the Capitol P. President.

In completely related news, the Treasury Department last week announced that the federal government

just for the month of November ran a record shattering $249 billion deficit, spending

a half a trillion dollars while taking in just one quarter.

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