[jpsb]

The bill passed 93-7 in the Senate so a lot of Republican WERE on board with sending billions to other countries. But they are not on board with helping Americans hurting from these Convid shutdowns. The GOP is dead and the MAGA party will replace it.

[Zhang Fei]

[The bill passed 93-7 in the Senate so a lot of Republican WERE on board with sending billions to other countries. But they are not on board with helping Americans hurting from these Convid shutdowns.]

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AFAIK, it was part of the standard annual appropriation for foreign aid. While it would have been nice to zero that out, the way these budget bills work is all the compromises get worked out into a single bill so they don’t have to go through these messy and time-consuming debates one at a time, thereby derailing anything not budget-related for the rest of the year. And by compromises, I mean the GOP lowers the amounts the Democrats want, and the Democrats get non-zero numbers for some of their pet causes.