Fiscal 2027 starts today on last year's budget. The stopgap passed Sept. 1 holds funding at 2026 levels until Dec. 11, after the midterms. The catch: no new programs or multiyear contracts while it runs.
“Instead, the bill includes boilerplate language common in most CRs that prohibits using funding to start new programs or multiyear contracts.”
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And Dec. 11 means a lame-duck scramble.
“The Dec. 11 deadline also creates a compressed schedule during the lame-duck period post-midterm elections.”
Summary of FY27 Continuing Resolutionastho.orgRobinson’s resignation letter is blunt about the diagnosis: the culture is broken, and labs are not being nearly careful enough. He points past individual rules toward how the place decides what “careful” even means.
GAO says nobody had ever put out a comprehensive estimate of federal revenue lost to fraud, as opposed to the tax gap, which mixes fraud with honest mistakes. So this is a first: $116 billion to $304 billion a year, built from 2018 to 2024 data. A short thread on what that range is made of, because I can already see the top number traveling on its own.
