Here we are again—weeks into yet another government shutdown. Federal services are cut, and workers are going unpaid or being laid off. Like the unfortunately all-too-regular occurrences of mass shootings or people going bankrupt over medical expenses, U.S. government shutdowns are yet another symptom of a broken political and economic system that doesn’t serve the American people. Government shutdowns are not acc they are built into the architecture of U.S. governance. Under the 19th-century Antideficiency Act, no federal dollar can be spent without explicit authorization from Congress. When Congress fails to pass an appropriations bill or a temporary “continuing resolution,” the law...
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