The bad part isn’t the number of votes. That’s barely relevant.

The bad part is what happens when the budget bill doesn’t pass. There are two valid possibilities:

• The previous year’s budget is provisionally renewed as-is until an agreement is reached
• The non-passing of the bill acts as a vote of no confidence against the government and elections are held. In the mean time, the previous year’s budget is provisionally renewed as-is.

Shutting down funding for government services is an incredibly dumb way to handle it.

Very post-apocalyptic picture. Excellent.