The President Can't Speak To 2019 Priorities Until He Finishes The 2018 Budget

The President of the United States shouldn’t be giving a speech which historically lays out the agenda for the coming year until he finishes his budget from last year and the last Congress. We know the President is new to politics and doesn’t play by its rules but on this one he must – he simply must complete the budget process which was required by law to be finished on October 1st of last year.  Not finishing his 2018 budget, first proposed in early 2018, is at this point reckless and irresponsible.   His inability to do the very basics of governing, in this case completing budgets on time and keeping the government open, is doing extraordinary harm to the nation. 

He sold himself to us in 2016 as a can do guy – well he needs to get his 2018 budget done and the government up, operating and funded before it is appropriate for him to begin talking about 2019.  This isn’t Foxlandia, this is Washington, the real world, the American government, and he needs to roll up his sleeves, put down the golf clubs and his TV remote, and lead our nation as every President before him has.