Year in and year out, Congress fails to perform one of its most basic responsibilities: to pass a budget. There is even a statute that sets forth the method and timeline for passing a federal budget. But instead, Congress opts for something known as a “continuing resolution,” which is a monolithic legislative setpiece that perpetuates the existing level of spending and the monstrous federal programs.

This embarrassing failure apparently isn’t too embarrassing because Congress persists in it. The only exception is that Congress periodically crams all of the programs and bills into a single entity called “omnibus” legislation for the purpose of raising the spending levels, structural deficit, and national debt — all the while, of course, funding new monstrous federal programs.