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it'd really suck if your family had planned a trip — maybe bought plane tickets, prepaid a hotel room — to one of America's national parks over the holiday break.

@interfluidity Sounds like the members of should support a spending bill that'd let people take that trip as planned huh

@realcaseyrollins absolutely. the one they negotiated in good faith for weeks and remain perfectly ready to pass.

@interfluidity lollllllllll It's always somebody else's fault 😂

casey is remote

@interfluidity On a more serious note, in a perfect world, each line item would be voted on separately, so that the folks in could pick and choose what they want to fund, and the items where there is more consensus--like the funding of state parks--aren't held up by what people are arguing over.

was supposed to get us to that point long ago, but despite the fact that it was the reason he was appointed and the can depose him, he's still speaker of the

@realcaseyrollins i guess i think horse trading — i'll assent to your priority if you assent to mine — is an important part of the legislative process. it'd save money if only individual line items a majority supports git funded, but i don't think it'd lead to better government over all. your community might really need some Federal support of a health clinic, and mine might need a bridge repaired. funding both might be better overall, from a national perspective, than neither.

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> your community might really need some Federal support of a health clinic, and mine might need a bridge repaired.

Why wouldn't state funds go to that rather than federal funds?

@realcaseyrollins because we mutually insure one another and the Federal government has far more capable and flexible financial tools than the states.