Attorney, Bullard Law.
Mike can be reached at mmcclory@bullardlaw.com
While you were attending last weekend's record opening for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Congress approved and President Obama signed the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2016, which provides for $1.14 trillion in federal spending through the end of the fiscal year. The 2016 Budget Act received bipartisan support (though it did not have universal support) and averts a government shutdown until at least October 2016 (just before the next presidential election).
Rolled into the 2016 Budget Act's spending appropriations is the following spending prohibition:
SEC. 542. None of the funds made available in this Act to the Department of Justice may be used
