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Congress' Constitutional Failures on Budgeting, Authorizing, & Appropriating | Article I Debate

10/09/2020

The brokenness of Congress’ budgeting, authorizing, and appropriating processes have contributed to the erosion of the proper balance of powers as outlined in Article I of the Constitution. Congress’ failures in this area have fast-tracked our path to the current $27 trillion debt. We hosted a conversation on the implications of these serious problems and how Congress can restore and better exercise its proper constitutionally-mandated role.

Tags I Coalition, Article 1, Article I Project, mark sanford, AEI, American Enterprise Institute, committee for a responsible federal budget, crfb, spending, debt, deficit, Budget

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