Congressman Bill Huizenga is expecting an end to the pattern of budget crisis after budget crisis with the new Trump administration in the White House and Republicans back in control of Congress.

Huizenga tells us the current continuing resolution to fund the government runs out in March, and he’s hoping lawmakers will finally get to work on a real budget after years of kicking the old budget, and the can, down the road. With the House back in session, he tells us an early task will be reauthorizing the 2017 tax cuts set to expire this year.

Huizenga adds the days of continuing resolutions are hopefully over.

“It’s a bane of my existence, and it should be the bane of everybody’s existence up here,” Huizenga said. “It’s a terrible way of funding government because you don’t actually go through and weed the garden. You don’t figure out, you know, what’s the good stuff, what’s the bad stuff. You just keep funding everything as it is, and that’s not a healthy way of funding government. So I am hoping that we don’t have to do any more continuing resolutions. If we do, it has got to be short-term.”

Huizenga says the government cannot continue spending at its current levels, telling us it’s spending more on interest for the debt than it’s spending on defense. He calls that unsustainable.

As we’ve previously reported, Huizenga expects any major cuts planned by Elon Musk to be run through Congress. He’s optimistic programs like the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative will continue, telling us once the value of the GLRI is explained, most agree it’s worth the money. Huizenga also notes the GLRI has bipartisan support, including Vice President JD Vance.