No Way To Run a $6 Billion Enterprise

January 23, 2023

Rich Keevey makes a case for eliminating the debt ceiling and budgeting properly in this latest opinion piece in PA Times.

“There have been 47 [Continuing Resolutions] CRs between 2010 and 2022, ranging in duration from 1 to 176 days. On three occasions no CR was approved resulting in a governmental shutdown. What a way to operate an almost $6 trillion enterprise which provides direct services to hundreds of millions of Americans and pays for the civilian work force and the armed forces.”

PATimes.org January 23, 2023

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