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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The budget passed by congress is meaningless. The sky is falling because Musk is demolishing agencies, firing federal workers, and terminating grants and contracts, all of which is based on funding already approved by congress. So if congress passes a new budget with the same funding as last year for ED or NOAA or any other agency it means nothing because of the illegal slashing of government by DOGE.[/quote]

All of this. The budget will be meaningless as far as the executive branch goes.

And they are taking the impoundment issue all the way to scotus. They are already impounding funds. They will keep doing it. [/quote]

This is true, but SCOTUS has generally upheld the impounding act, even recently.  I think this will be a court battle that will take some time to play out because even if they rule quickly, he'll look for sideways ways to avoid spending the money, as he has been doing in NIH despite court orders.  Ultimately, impoundment act wlll be upheld and spending will be pushed through, but for some time services and oversight will be terrible because of lack of staff.  All this mess could easily take 4 years to play out.  So either way, we're waiting for another administration to get back to something more normal.[/quote]

OP here -- that's my read on this. Yes -- the damage will be quite bad, even this fiscal year. But I think (at least from approps perspective), things should be better in FY26. [b]I don't know how they'll bring back USAID[/b] or fix the wreckage in the other sectors though. Pity the remaining Feds who will have 2-3X workloads.[/quote]

IMO, USAID is not coming back. At least not until the next Democratic administration.[/quote]

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