“Congress’s most important job is deciding how federal money is spent. It hasn’t passed annual funding bills on time since 1997,” the Washington Post reports.“And the normal act of budget-making has become all but impossible, with partisan gridlock and President Donald Trump’s push for Republicans to go it alone, opening new cracks in an already-battered system.”“The breakdown in bipartisan budgeting every year threatens public programs that millions of Americans rely on and further endangers the government’s long-term fiscal health.”