Posted on 02/10/2018 5:38:30 AM PST by Cheerio
On the day of the latest government shutdown, Congress passed a two-year $300 billion, 652-page budget under 18 hours, much to the dismay of conservatives.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) struck a deal on Wednesday to fund the government for two years, featuring substantial increases in domestic and defense spending. Both the House and Senate passed the $300 billion two-year budget on Friday morning, halting a temporary government shutdown.
The House passed a stop-gap spending bill on Tuesday that funded the government through March 23; the bill funded the Defense Department for one year and financed community health centers for two years.
The Senate Appropriations Committee released the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 around 12:00 a.m. on February 7 and McConnell began the procedure to start voting on the budget around 6:00 p.m. on February 8, leaving roughly 18 hours for members of Congress to read the bill.
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Isn’t amazing how people blast off without the facts?
“Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) struck a deal on Wednesday to fund the government for two years, featuring substantial increases in domestic and defense spending.”
Big government party teams up with big government party.
Exactly.
Thank you for putting it into perspective.
I guess you could call bending over and grabbing his ankles "bowing", but I'd all it something else!
For all his faults - and he has many - I will be forever grateful to McTurtle for saving the Republic by denying Zero the opportunity to fill Scalia’s SC seat. It was Zero’s final solution to destroy America.
Somehow, some way we will never understand, McTurtle found a spine at one of the most crucial moments in our history.
That said, what has he done for us lately?
The fact the compromise was struck indicates that there was not a problem
Adequate measure have been taken and will be taken to effectively render Obamacare dead.
PDJT may just be a speed bump on our way towards Transformation, Hussein style.
“”This was not the final 2 YEAR bill and the article is obsolete.””
I’ll be the one to go out on a limb here and ask WHY? I only know what I read online as I gave up on any TV news going on four months now...
What is the final bill?
Some specifics:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/02/09/whats-in-senate-budget-deal-6-quick-takeaways.html
I continue to get GOP donation letters in the mail and I continue to throw them in the trash and this is why!
The only way to repeal Obamacare is piece by tiny piece.
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