Back in the good ole' days before Big Brother (our "representative" career politicians aka The Swamp) went and broke what's supposed to be We The People's government, here is how the legislative process worked, according to the linked article~

Freakin' Step 1
Congress approved a budget, a blueprint of how
money would be spent during the year.

Freakin' Step 2
Congress authorized spending on existing programs whose authorization had run out.

Freakin' Step 3
Congress approved 11 or 12 appropriation bills at one time, with appropriators carefully considering a reasonable level of spending for each category, members voting up and down on each one, approving those they agree with, opposing those they thought spent too much or too little.

Yep, those were the good ole' days. Today?
Budget? What's a budget? We don't need no stinkin' budget!
Hey, guys, for this here Omnibus Bill, let's float a loan to get DACA off the ground. What? You Jackass Partiers don't want no stinkin' DACA either? Why?
Ah, leverage to keep the wall from being built while you can keep calling Trump a racist. Okay.
Oh, guess y'all don't know there's a dinky so-called "down payment" on the wall in the bill.
Oh, you haven't read the bill. That's okay too.
Few if any of us have read all 2,000 pages with that threat deadline of a government shutdown looming over our swampy career politician heads..
Yeah, yeah, yeah! Let's hurry, hurry, hurry! Let's hurry up and pass this big bill to see what's in it .
Wheee! Hell's bells shotgun shells! Let's all hitch a ride on this Brave New World Banana Republic Express!
Yeehaw! Ha! Ha! Ha!
I don't give a damn! My earmarks are in a jam!
Why think debit when we've got credit?
How can we crash and burn, baby? How can we crash and burn? We're the elite with nuthin' left to learn!
Wheeeeeeeeee!
Cray havoc and let loose the national debt!
Thar she blows!~http://www.usdebtclock.org/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3edi2...