While the full impact of operating under continuing resolutions is difficult to quantify across the Defense Department, a government watchdog found that stopgap funding measures have led to program delays, increased costs, administrative burdens and operational challenges.
For the past five decades, the Pentagon has relied on temporary funding measures at the start of nearly every fiscal year — the department has operated under continuing resolutions in all but 12 of the last 49 years. In eight of the past 15 fiscal years, those continuing resolutions lasted more than three months.
The Government Accountability Office has previously examined the effects of CRs on agencies across the federal government, but in 2024,…
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