The National Archives is Requesting a Budget CUT
Responses to FOIA requests already average between 12 and 622 years. How much worse can it get?
For the fifth time since October 2023, the federal government is on the brink of a shutdown, thanks to Congress’s inability to pass a federal budget. The government has been running on a series of Continuing Resolutions, which keep federal departments and agencies open at the previous fiscal year’s budget levels. But damage usually comes from that. Whatever raise federal workers are granted has to come from somewhere, so the money is moved from elsewhere in the budget. Planned programs are put on the backburner, contracts are not renewed, and things tend to go “stale” until Congress gets its act together and passes a new budget that covers the entire October-to-September fiscal year.
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