Federal services, agencies slowly returning after government shutdown ends

I have to say I don't know SMSgt Lawrence McCarter . I am sure someone on RP is smarter than me and can answer that.

SMSgt Lawrence McCarter Lt Col Charlie Brown There was never a shutdown before the the late 70s or early 80s. What happened was that Carter's AG reinterpreted some aspect of the Constitution to create the understanding that there was no authority to spend money in the context of lapsed appropriation. Congress had been late many times before that, but the government continued to operate under an implicit CR, which term hadn't even been invented yet because it wasn't needed.

In theory Pam Bondi might be able to go back to the old understanding of the Constitutionality of the implied CR. But it might be a "put the genie back in the bottle" issue. Maybe the precedent of Congress formally passing CRs created a Constitutional roadblock to relying on an implied one. Also, if Bondi agrees with the current interpretation, then she absolutely shouldn't try to do the politically expedient thing that her principles don't support.

LTC Matthew Schlosser - Correct. I believe it was 1979 or 80.

a lot of us have been saying that since the 80s.They have only pulled it off three times in the last 36 years, and yet we have had members of Congress serve continuously, on both sides of the aisle, since the 80s.