you're on the steve newcomb. caller: good morning.en, is it not the primary responsibility of congress to pass a budget each year by may 1, if i'm correct. is that not the case? guest: yes, it is congress' duty and job to pass a budget and this is something that republicans at a macrolevel have been pushing for a systematic change to this point where they could not be a situation where the passing off of this bill every year and pulling everything together. they wanted to pass the budget, they want to pass all these individual spending bills. so that is something systematically that i think speaker mccarthy came into office trying to change. we've seen how tough it is to accomplish, in a house that at this point has a two or three seat majority. host: in this chart we showed every once in a while, it shows the percentage of appropriations bills enacted by the october 1 deadline, this isn't budget, but actually passing appropriations bills. it hasn't been since 1997, and in the 90's and congress last past their appropriations bills on