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Once again, Congress failed to pass all—or in this case, any—of its annual government funding bills by the end of the fiscal year. This time, the country felt the consequences pretty acutely, as the failure to enact the 12 appropriations bills by October 1 triggered the longest government shutdown in American history.
Charles Hilu is a reporter for The Dispatch based in Washington, D.C. Before joining the company in 2024, he was the Collegiate Network Fellow at the Washington Free Beacon and interned at both National Review and the Washington Examiner. When he is not chasing down lawmakers on Capitol Hill, he is probably listening to show tunes or following the premier sports teams of the University of Michigan and city of Detroit.
