A continuing resolution means that current spending levels would continue and that most new projects and programs could not begin. At least seven new weapons programs were facing disruptions because of continuing resolutions, based on a Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments study.
“The Defense Department and other agencies are straight-jacketed by being held to last year’s funding levels for their programs,” Katherine Blakeley, a research fellow at the non-partisan CSBA, said in an interview. “If you’re the Defense Department, you might get about the same amount of money, but it might be allocated in the wrong way.”