It may be a new year, but Congress is returning to the same old challenge it left behind in 2017 – agreeing on a budget.
And the deadline is looming. Lawmakers are trying to achiever a compromise on the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, build a wall on the Mexican border and agree to a limit on how much Congress can spend on military and domestic programs in order to prevent a government shutdown by next Friday.
Fox News asked Marc Goldwein, senior policy director of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget – a bipartisan, nonprofit organization that educates the public on fiscal policy issues – to explain a government shutdown, and he answered seven basic questions about the process that Americans should know.
What causes a government shutdown?
A shutdown occurs when Congress and the president fail to sign into law 12 appropriations bills (which determine spending for specific government agencies) in order to continue providing funding for government operations.
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