As Congress approaches a funding deadline and the prospect of a government shutdown gets realer by the minute, lawmakers are confronting a difficult question: How do you write a spending bill when spending is getting slashed every day?
Hardly anyone has an answer.
Some just want President Donald Trump to handle it. Some think Congress should codify the cuts as soon as possible. Others want it done through reconciliation. And still some others want to keep on spending like normal and just roll back the dollars when they can.