Posted on 12/02/2021 6:59:13 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate passed a stopgap spending bill Thursday that avoids a short-term shutdown and funds the federal government through Feb. 18 after leaders defused a partisan standoff over federal vaccine mandates. The measure now goes to President Joe Biden to be signed into law.
“I am glad that in the end, cooler heads prevailed. The government will stay open and I thank the members of this chamber for walking us back from the brink of an avoidable, needless and costly shutdown,” said Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.
The Senate approved the measure by a vote of 69-28.
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They want their paychecks
ChInA can always count on the GOP.
Americans? .... not so much.
Shocka...
They want their month long Christmas vacation
Shouldn’t one go crazy and stand on a ledge (three feet off the floor in the Capitol) and scream “Somebody stop me before I spend more!”?
Great clip for news shows.
“Reached a temporary stopgap spending agreement” doesn’t have the sizzle factor.
I’m so relieved!!!-sarc
I am so old, I can remember when Congress passed a budget every year, before the Fiscal Year ran out.
They never stuck to it, but By God, they passed a budget.
Protect the government at all costs.
“Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, said Democrats knew last month that several Republicans would use all means at their disposal to oppose legislation that funds or allows the enforcement of the employer vaccine mandate. He blamed Schumer for not negotiating and for ignoring their position.”
And to show how serious this rino is, they forced to show vote so now they can all go out and beat their chests. Is it time to take our country back yet?
Next up: the Marxist Green New Deal bill. You can thank China Mitch and the GOP Senate for clearing the Senate decks for its passage.
Pure Treason
China Mitch wants Reconciliation with Amnesty for 20 million and 80000
irs agents and 60000 global warming police .
Any one have the names of the Gope Monsters ?
We need a Civil War
and Mitch and his gope gang need to be hung .
Protect the government at all costs.
Get the Green New Deal bill passed by Christmas at all costs. The GOP wants that bill almost as much a Dems do. They could have dragged out other Senate business but chose to grease the GND instead.
Mumbai Mike the Indian Job Invader consultant.
Mike Lee is a Globalist Evil con man .
The non-military government needs to be shutdown for a while.. It’s much too big, too expensive. Someone must bite the bullet and begin reducing it’s size.
So did the vaccine mandate stay in or not?
Who were the 18 Monsters .
Primary all of them .
Thune conveniently was not there as well as the Kansas Gope con man .
BOHICA. Here comes the Green New Deal. China Mitch is wrapping it up in a nice bow and will put the bill under Biden’s tree for Christmas.
Me too....
After Senate Republicans allowed the Democrats to impose their will on the country, they (GOP Senators) asked donors to send them campaign contributions so that they could continue to fight, fight, fight.
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