Georgetown Public Policy Review
Policy Shaping Our Future
Government shutdowns are costly and unpopular with the public. Why, then, haven’t legislators adopted any of the proposals to prevent future shutdowns? As it turns out, these proposals would take appropriation powers away from the legislative branch and make it even harder to reach consensus. The 2018-19 government shutdown was a disaster. It suspended critical […]
After Democrats lost control of the House of Representatives in 2010, President Obama turned away from the gridlock imposed by Tea Party conservatives and towards a different method for his primary form of policy making: executive orders. At this time, while some noted this as a method of circumventing a Congress locked against him, critics […]