768 Days & Counting Since Senate Democrats Passed  A Budget

It’s been 768 days since U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) and the Democrats who run the Senate have performed the most basic job function of Congress by passing a federal budget.

In this Congress alone, Democrats like McCaskill haven’t even offered any budget proposal, because their partisan leaders – Senators Harry Reid (D-NV) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY) – have said that to do so would be “foolish,” and that Democrats do not have the time to propose a budget.

“It’s been 768 days since Senator McCaskill and her liberal friends in Washington have passed a budget,” said National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) spokesman Chris Bond.  “With a national debt of over $14.3 trillion, Missourians deserve to know what’s keeping McCaskill from performing her most basic task of passing a budget that will rein in her reckless spending habits that are bankrupting our country.”

By The Numbers – Claire McCaskill’s Recent Record In the Senate

768:  Days since the Democrat Senate has passed a budget resolution

$3.2 Trillion:  Debt accumulated since a budget was last passed

$7.1 Trillion:  Total federal spending over that time

$413 Billion:  Net interest payments over that time

2024:  Projected year that Medicare will go bankrupt

9.1:  Percent of workforce currently unemployed

22,462,000:  Approximate total number of workers currently unemployed and underemployed

0:  Budget resolutions passed by the Democrat Senate this year

0:  Senate Budget Committee mark-ups scheduled this year

51:  Bills marked up by other Senate Committees this Congress

10.75:  Number of hours spent debating and amending budgets and spending bills in the Democrat Senate

86.3:  Number of hours spent debating and amending budgets and spending bills in the Republican House