CR

The US budget process. The president sends a budget to the congress and they have 12 sub committees that approve 12 appropriation bills and they are sent to the president for his signature. This is supposed to be in the president’s desk before Oct 1st. Since the current federal budget process was established in 1977, Congress has only passed all the required appropriations bills to fund the government by the October 1 deadline and sent them to the President on time four times: The other times the government stayed open by-passing continuing resolutions (CR’s). That is the reason the government shut down since they did not pass the CR. By opening the government, the congress agrees to fund the government until January 1st at which time they will face another potential shut down. The obvious solution is to send a budget to the president for the entire year by Oct 1st which is what the law requires.