The Looming Government Shutdown
The Big Ben Show
Fox News Radio
4.5 • 576 Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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| 0:41.3 | You're listening to Fox News Radio. I'm Ben Dominic. |
| 0:43.3 | Washington, D.C. is focused right now on the prospects of a potential government shutdown. |
| 0:49.3 | How often have we gone through this ridiculous rigmarole over and over again over the past decade? |
| 0:56.4 | This is the effect that happens when Congress bounces back and forth from continuing resolution to |
| 1:02.4 | continuing resolution without actually doing its job when it comes to making decisions in the |
| 1:07.2 | budgetary process. That's also the reason that something like Doge exists. |
| 1:12.6 | The fact that Congress has been refusing to make those decisions because they're hard and because |
| 1:17.1 | they have political consequences over the past many years is the reason that we have a sclerotic |
| 1:23.2 | non-functional government in D.C. But also when it comes to the mission of Doge, we are facing a |
| 1:32.3 | prospect that is very interesting because of the political fallout that could happen if Democrats |
| 1:38.1 | actually go down the road of making a shutdown happen. Speaker Mike Johnson has been working toward a deal that is essentially |
| 1:46.0 | another can kick. That is continuing the kind of budgetary stupidity that we've seen going on for |
| 1:53.1 | years and anticipating some big beautiful bill that will solve all of it in the future. |
| 1:59.3 | This never, of course, comes to pass. So instead, |
| 2:02.7 | what you have are continuing resolutions that just stack up the money and send it back out to the |
| 2:08.2 | agencies and bureaucracies across the federal government in ways that won't ruffle anybody's feathers. |
| 2:14.8 | Unfortunately, in this moment, that type of can kick could have consequences for Democrats |
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