Yeah, this will never work.
One idea being floated for a budget resolution would call for setting the top line of the budget at $1.04 trillion, the figure favored by conservative Republicans, but include a "trigger" provision that would allow the budget to be increased to the full $1.07 trillion if the House passes at least 10 spending bills.
"That's gaining a lot of support among conservative members, feeling like if we get back to the normal appropriations process it gives control back to members of Congress and that the increase in spending would be a minor exchange for getting back to regular order," House Freedom Caucus founding member Mark Meadows, R-N.C., said in an interview.
Right. The Freedomy guys are going to agree to increasing the budget as long as 10 spending bills pass. And they actually believe that the Freedomy guys are going to let 10 spending bills pass so that the budget could be increased? What Sherlock cooked that one up?
As you'll remember, the whole reason Paul Ryan and his leadership team haven't been able to come up with a budget is because the Freedomy types have been fighting it, trying to renege on last year's budget agreement worked up by then-Speaker John Boehner. Without an actual budget, they're not supposed to be doing appropriations bills, but of course they're doing it anyway.
But this is an entirely new and completely bizarre wrinkle, in which they're trying to create a retroactive, triggered budget? No, it doesn't make any sense, in case you're wondering.