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It's even worse than that. They passed a budget, but need a separate vote for actually authorizing the money to be spent.
Congress set it up this way, on purpose, so that small-government types would have an additional opportunity to negotiate shit that's already been negotiated.
The house passed a budget that fucks over health care. The Senate has not
No, the budget was passed as the One Big Beautiful Bill. It was passed without Democratic support because the Senate used the Budget Reconciliation process to bypass the filibuster. But now, the Senate cannot again use Reconciliation to pass any of the two competing appropriations bills. (And as far as I know, neither bill actually performs the appropriations from the budget, and just keeps current spending levels in place, with the Democratic bill adding the healthcare fix.)
The OBBB includes provisions that fucks over healthcare. The House appropriations bill kept those things in place. The Senate rejected it, then the House stopped working.
The OB3 was not a budget. It was a series of laws/proclamations that would be funded in the future.
The fiscal year ended last month. Hence the need for a budget for the current fiscal year.
Please educate yourself more rather than spew propaganda that favors trump and the chuds.
wrong
The OBBB was passed through the budget reconciliation process, which allows it to be passed in the Senate without a cloture vote, but also limits it to strictly budgetary items. It is a budget bill, full stop. It has to be I order to be passed through the Reconciliation process.
The current shutdown has nothing to do with the budgetary process, it has to do with a lack of appropriations.
I don't block many people, but I am blocking you, because you are a troll.
For the benefit of people who aren't plugging their ears and screaming that daddy trump already fixed the economy:
I recommend actually reading through https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Big_Beautiful_Bill_Act as it is a fairly unbiased coverage.
But, in a nutshell: the OB3 is not a budget. It is a list of proclamations. Some of those have budgetary implications but they are only a subset of what the government is responsible for. The chuds not understanding what the government does? Just as crazy now as all the other fucking times it happens.
An actual congressional budget gets shockingly in depth. It is just that nobody, congress included, gives a shit about the individual line items.
As a metaphor that The Internet will lose its mind over because metaphors are complicated: The OB3 is like saying you are going to set aside money next year to go on a vacation... where you beat up trans people. It is a step towards a budget but it doesn't say where that money comes from or what else you'll do next year. That is the ACTUAL budget that needs to pass by the start of the fiscal year.