[RandFan]

Can anyone confirm what Rand is saying is true on the spending package?

He is saying Johnson “sided with the majority of Democrats” on spending I believe.

That is not good if true. It should cost him his job!!

What happened to the “majority of the majority” rule?

[Right_Wing_Madman]

He is saying Johnson “sided with the majority of Democrats” on spending I believe.

That is correct. More House Republicans voted against the spending bill than voted for it, but Johnson brought the bill to a floor vote anyway.

[Sacajaweau]

Prefer a shutdown?? Shutdowns simply don’t work...and hurt you and me. I believe the pkg started out at about 3 Tril and it does NOT include more bucks for Ukraine and Israel.

[Mariner]

“What happened to the “majority of the majority” rule?”

He abandoned it.

[daniel1212]

Among other things, i read read that in spending money it does not have, ,

The bipartisan bill adheres to the spending caps imposed by last year’s debt ceiling deal. It funds the procurement of eight battle ships and dozens of new aircraft, provides a small amount of Ukraine military aid and offers multiyear procurement for six critical munitions. The bill includes $33.5 billion to build eight ships and allocates funds for 86 F-35 and 24 F-15 EX fighter jets as well as 15 KC-46A tankers. There’s also a combined $2.1 billion for the Army’s Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon and the Navy’s Conventional Prompt Strike hypersonic weapons system.

The bill retains $300 million for the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative, which allows the Pentagon to place contracts for equipment to send Kyiv. House Republican leaders had initially removed the $300 million in Ukraine aid amid opposition from the right flank of their caucus when they narrowly passed their version of the defense spending bill 218-210 in September.

But even with the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative funds back in the bill, the $300 million is far less than the $60 billion in security and economic support for Kyiv provided in the Senate’s foreign aid bill...

War games hosted by the House China Committee in April found the U.S. would rapidly run out of munitions — including the SM-6, Naval Strike Missile and Long-Range Anti-Ship Missile — in a war with Beijing in the Pacific

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Additionally, the bill provides an $800 million boost to the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit, for a total budget of $983 million in FY24. It also provides $200 million for Replicator, the Pentagon’s effort to buy and field thousands of drones by next August.

Finally, the legislation cuts funding for the Defense Department civilian workforce by $1 billion.

- https://www.defensenews.com/congress/2024/03/21/defense-spending-bill-has-some-ukraine-aid-multiyear-munitions-buys/