So we enter the 4th short-term Federal funding period, this time only 3 wks. You really can't operate much this way. Few contracts can be accomplished in a month, much less 3 wks. These monthly funding periods disrupt all contracting, for example. Contracts are now building up increasingly overloading those individuals taking care of them. It probably is too late for many large contracts to be accomplished this fiscal year. In funding by continuing resolution (CR) most money won't carry over to the next fiscal year further exacerbating inefficiency.
Operating on CRs even for a year at a time is debilitating because your funding is held at the previous year's level and wages continue to climb (e.g. step increases within grade) taking away operating money. So to get operating funds you have to let people go, usually temps, but operating under CRs has now gone on for 3 yrs so I guess the temps are all gone.
While it is nice that the children's health program is renewed for 6 yrs, there is much yet to be funded, including in the military.
Years' ago now, the Federal fiscal year was changed from July 1 to October 1 to give Congress more time to appropriate programs. Because Congress only passes things at the last minute, the change hasn't been effective.
I am glad I am retired and no longer in the Federal government system. You are just a political football.
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