1) The Republicans in the House have a spending bill! At a time like this?? Don't those guys know that we're broke?!
2) The responsible Democrats in the Senate have killed that nasty spending bill so that the country does not go deeper into debt.
Of course all of that is a gross misinterpretation of the facts. But I think the media pushes that stuff on purpose.
If I read that right-—IE read what it says-—the Senate didn’t kill anything. They voted to “table” both of the house bills. You’d think the senate demos would have the nerve to actually vote something down if it was really BAD. Tabling makes it look like dingyharry is saving up all the house bills until he finds one he sort of likes. Tabling also means they haven’t actually sent anything back to the House. Bbbbuuuutttt the reporting is so halfast all the way around that you can’t tell what to bet on-—don’t even use monopoly money-—that’s worth more than the reporting.
All funding bills are spending bills, and must, by the Constitution, originate in the House.