Commentary: Risking worse shutdowns
by David A. Super, Los Angeles Times
Feb 01, 2019
3 minutes
The 35-day partial government shutdown that cost the U.S. economy $11 billion can teach us something about our political process' limits in problem-solving. These lessons are particularly important because a new effort to add a balanced-budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution could make damaging government shutdowns more frequent and harder to solve.
Around the country, well-funded groups are making a concerted push to get state resolutions passed that call for
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