When Congress Is Unable to Pass a Complete Budget by the Beginning

question 7

Multiple Choice

When Congress is unable to pass a complete budget by the beginning of the fiscal year, it usually passes , which enable the executive agencies to keep on doing whatever they were doing the previous year with the same amount of funding.

• A) continuing resolutions
• B) second budget resolutions
• C) tax increases
• D) first budget resolutions
• E) outlays and obligations bills

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