Posted on 03/22/2024 8:57:18 AM PDT by Coronal
Washington — The House passed a massive spending package on Friday to fully fund the government through September, sending it to the Senate ahead of a midnight deadline to avert a partial shutdown.
The House approved the $1.2 trillion package, which was unveiled early Thursday, in a vote of 286 to 134. The package wraps six spending bills into one to fund about three-quarters of the government until the end of the fiscal year. Another package funding the rest of the government cleared Congress two weeks ago.
A majority of Republicans voted against the measure, with House conservatives objecting to the funding levels in the agreement that House Speaker Mike Johnson reached with Democratic leadership in the Senate. The bill includes money for the departments of State, Homeland Security, Defense, Labor and Health and Human Services, as well as funds for foreign operations, financial services and the legislative branch.
Passage in the House moves Congress one step closer to ending a fight over spending that has persisted six months into the fiscal year, one that has forced lawmakers to repeatedly rely on short-term funding extensions to keep the government operating since October.
Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, waived a self-imposed 72-hour rule that gives lawmakers time to read legislation before a vote in order to get it across the finish line and send it to the Senate, giving the upper chamber just hours before the clock strikes midnight.
Senate rules that allow a single lawmaker to object to expediting a bill's passage could push a vote into Saturday. Republicans are also likely to demand votes on amendments in exchange for speeding up the process, as they did with the last funding bill. Sen. Susan Collins of Maine predicted the upper chamber could hold amendment votes as soon as Friday afternoon.
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why? why are we not shutting down government, non essential government?
A ban on all stories about budget talks, looming government shutdowns and continuing resolutions, is in order since it’s always the same old Kabuki. No one is ever surprised at the outcome, which is always the same.
Interactive of votes on bill:
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/22/politics/house-vote-funding-shutdown-dg/index.html
The Republican Party is pathetic.
“Speaker” Johnson does nothing but pull his johnson.
“Total infiltrator. We were bamboozled.”
Granted, throw him out and say “Yes Sir!” to Speaker Jeffries.
We cannot vote our way out of this mess. Face it. It’s over. Better get out the ol’ drawing board and come up with a better model,—— for after the collapse, the civil war and the total devastation.
yes, indeed. it’s like watching a one legged man run a race against amputees.
You pass a fiscally appropriate bill in the House and let the Democrats in the Senate do all of the stuff you just said.
The House is responsible for coming up with the budget. If the Dems don't like that they can either amend the constitution, pass the budget or take the blame for not passing it.
It's really not that tough.
Here is the secret....The Republicans pretend it is tough because they like spending all the money.
The collapse of China means production is reshoring here. All of these things mean that the US will be just fine.
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Two problems: China isn’t “collapsing” despite all the propaganda to the affirmative. Secondly, The demographic and cultural trends in the US bode very badly. The deterioration is slow (almost imperceptivity slow), but it’s there. Our elites are at war with honest, law-abiding citizens in an effort to boost their own wealth domestically and internationally. They are perfectly willing to replace the legitimate citizens of this country with illegals and lots of other immigrants to do it. In their eyes (You and I are simply resources for their own ends). That will not be ultimately challenged by any “vote of the people”. Unless there is some kind of seismic shift in political awareness (akin to a Revolution), that will not change. If that doesn’t change, then there is definitely an expiration date for the US. It may be well after you and I are gone, but it’s as certain as a mortal man’s death.
Chip Roy on Steve Bannon’s War Room
Rep. Chip Roy: A vote for the #SwampOmnibus is a vote against America
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5BeCsuNzIM
What’s equally disappointing is MTG is the only one who speaks up. This 5 foot tall woman has more guts in her little pinky that the entire pathetic wussbag RINOpublican party that are about as useful as a Chris Christie diet plan. I will never ever ever forgive them for how they acted during the first 2 years of Trumps Presidency. Repubs had the White house, the Senate, the house and they let Democrats stomp all over them with the Russia collusion hoax, absolutely beyond pathetic
Agreed. Johnson wasn't even smart enough to give the country 72 hours to read the bill! Outrageous!
Republicans are nothing but a bunch of disgusting arrogant spineless weak willed lily liveried eunuchs.
Another jerk off “decent Christian “.
Yep. Better get that wheelbarrow out to haul cash to buy a loaf of bread.
“Promises? PROMISES? “
I think I was in diapers and I’m 64.
Let them eat cake.
Compromise? More like caving.
They left it unmoved yesterday
If they did their jobs and funded one at a time we wouldn’t need last minute omnibus bills.
I’m so sick of the excuse, “well I had to vote for it to keep defense (or something else) funded”.
We let the necessary spending be held hostage for tyranny spending or bike paths, etc.
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