The Year Without a Christmas Shutdown Battle

Conservatives profess to hate “continuing resolutions,” or stopgap measures that extend current spending levels for a fixed period of time, putting off savage battles over Republican demands for deep cuts in nondefense spending. But the “CR” that Congress is almost sure to pass in the next few weeks will be an exception since it points not to some renewal of partisan gridlock in the not-too-distant future but to a 2025 Congress in which MAGA Republicans...