Quin Hillyer is the deputy commentary editor for the Washington Examiner. He is a former executive editor for the American Spectator and has served in senior roles for the Washington Times, the Mobile Register, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, and Gambit New Orleans Weekly and has been published in almost every major newspaper in the nation.
House Speaker Mike Johnson is on the right track in his Nov. 11 proposal to temporarily continue government funding in two pieces, with a tighter deadline for full-term funding for the easier parts of the budget.
The first proposal – the two-tiered approach to keeping the government from shutting down on Nov. 17, when the prior spending extension expires – uses some of the same logic as the longer-term pledge. Namely, it makes more sense to break projects down into bite-sized chunks than to insist on all-or-nothing propositions.
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