It is unfortunate that Atlasia has not had a budget since 2014. Compiling a budget will make the government work much more efficiently and effectively.
Technically, it hasn't been quite that long. The former Senate passed a budget in early 2016 that was signed into law by then-President Griffin and remained in effect until June 9, 2016 (when all laws passed prior to the ratification of the Fourth Constitution became null and void). So, we've been without a budget for a little less than 14 months.
As I recall, there was an effort by the First Congress to organize a Joint Committee on the Budget that produced some interesting ideas on tax reform, but ultimately did nothing to implement them. Then there was the October election fiasco when nobody knew who the president was for almost a month, and that pretty much scuttled any chance of an eleventh-hour push to get something through Congress before years' end.
This is the sort of thing that is not terribly difficult or time consuming, but
does require Congress and the president to be proactive and not wait until the very last moment to act. If the Senate could accomplish this in 2015, with the ConCon and the December holiday season sapping everyone's attention, then surely the present Congress can do it now.
