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Senate passes stopgap funding bill, avoiding shutdown
The Associated Press ^ | December 2, 2021 | By KEVIN FREKING and LISA MASCARO

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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TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: debt; deficit; failure; gope; inflation; mcconnell; spending
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To: lodi90

There is only one party in Washington...


21 posted on 12/02/2021 7:21:05 PM PST by Sonshinegirl
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To: Baldwin77

No .
A Mike Lee Charade .

2 Gopers did not even show up to vote .

It was never going to pass .

Mike Lee is up for reelection .
Just India Mike PR scam .


22 posted on 12/02/2021 7:21:06 PM PST by ncalburt (they Gop DC Globalists are the evil )
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To: lodi90

Bingo


23 posted on 12/02/2021 7:21:39 PM PST by ncalburt (they Gop DC Globalists are the evil )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What a singularly uninformative
article. Now let’s take stock: six weeks ago McConnell said the Republicans would not vote for this measure and that the rats were completely able to do it on their own using their last 2021 shot at reconciliation. Today the Republicans did exactly the opposite. And we got… what for it? I’ll bet you we got absolutely nothing and just unnecessarily caved again for no reason. I mean, the rats didn’t even have to have their media arm apply any pressure at all. It’s nothing short of astounding just how vacant and craven the Republican leadership is


24 posted on 12/02/2021 7:22:09 PM PST by j.havenfarm (20 years on Free Republic, 12/10/20! More than 3700 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: jeffersondem

Ya cant make that crap up 🙄


25 posted on 12/02/2021 7:22:43 PM PST by Sonshinegirl
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To: ncalburt

https://www.toddstarnes.com/politics/meet-the-19-senate-republicans-who-betrayed-voters-sided-with-dems-and-kept-the-government-open/?utm_source=izooto&utm_medium=push_notification&utm_campaign=Meet_the_19_Republicans_Who_Betraye


26 posted on 12/02/2021 7:29:30 PM PST by Truth29
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

No reruns of Mitch making his bold proclamations that the Democrats are on their own?


27 posted on 12/02/2021 7:30:54 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Just................damn!


28 posted on 12/02/2021 7:33:10 PM PST by ducttape45
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To: Organic Panic

Mitch is a dem

Plays a Pub on tv though

CCP $ pays


29 posted on 12/02/2021 7:33:17 PM PST by combat_boots (Hi God bless Israel and all who protect and defend her. Merry Christmas! In God We Trust! W)
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To: Truth29

So

Kennedy LA is a snake

Rubio needs to primaried and removed .
Foam boy needs to go to the Boy bars in S beach .


30 posted on 12/02/2021 7:33:18 PM PST by ncalburt (they Gop DC Globalists are the evil )
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To: Truth29

thanks


31 posted on 12/02/2021 7:33:37 PM PST by ncalburt (they Gop DC Globalists are the evil )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer; All

They don’t even vote like different panties for show anymore. Is there any opposition to anything?


32 posted on 12/02/2021 7:37:48 PM PST by wiseprince (Me,)
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To: lodi90

Amnesty for 20 million fir their owners at the Chamber of Crony Capitalism.

The C of C ordered the same Gope to ram thru the Infra Scam Bill .

Most of the 18 gopers ram thru that .

I see Kennedy and Rubio have joined the treason pact .


33 posted on 12/02/2021 7:37:50 PM PST by ncalburt (they Gop DC Globalists are the evil )
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To: ncalburt; All

Just stop. Stop. They are one party. No different. Calling out one party over the other is silly at this point. Why Trump doesn’t call a complete boycott of the RNC is beyond me. I don’t know that he has the fire to fight the GOPe. Keeps endorsing Repukes who don’t deserve it. I know he needs allys but at some point the lesser of two evils is quite useless. He needs a real strategy for the whole country. He needs to start supporting Democrats who are reasonable and get rid of leftist Repukes. Every endorsement is for a Repuke and the Rats are left with purely crazies. There needs to be crossing over.


34 posted on 12/02/2021 7:43:10 PM PST by wiseprince (Me,)
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To: wiseprince


Mike Lee is a fool.

I watched him myself a couple years back and could not believe this was the idiot people were praising.

When it came time to question Comey, after it became known Mueller was a Hoax, Lee said I looked up to you, I have a picture of you in my office, and I’m a little disappointed in you. He wasted his time and sounded like a buffoon. He left it like Comey was well intentioned.

The few people that think the GOP wants to do anything but joyously frolic in Biden’s spending are dumb as rocks.

.


35 posted on 12/02/2021 7:55:09 PM PST by AnthonySoprano (‘’)
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To: wiseprince
I cant trust one Gop Senator .

They are all DC swamp operatives .

These 19 snakes feel untouchable or Retiring .

36 posted on 12/02/2021 7:56:29 PM PST by ncalburt (they Gop DC Globalists are the evil )
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To: ncalburt

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Kennedy LA is a fraud. Loves to hear himself talk. Fashions himself as some genius, while the future is being stolen.

TV Drama Queen that will pony up to Joe in the end.

.


37 posted on 12/02/2021 7:57:39 PM PST by AnthonySoprano (‘’)
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To: AnthonySoprano

He made quite Clear today .


38 posted on 12/02/2021 8:02:06 PM PST by ncalburt (they Gop DC Globalists are the evil )
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To: ncalburt

Kind of an interesting thing happened recently, I donated to Rubio when he first ran, thinking he would be a good conservative. He got to Washington and hitched his wagon to the gang of eight on amnesty, and I’ve never given him another dime. About twice a year I will get campaign emails from him asking for donations. The last one, when I unsubscribed, I got an email asking why I unsubscribed. I told them that I wouldn’t financially support a rino, I’d rather throw my money in the street and watch it blow away, and if he really needs funding he should go to his constituents, illegal aliens. It probably didn’t accomplish much, but I felt good.


39 posted on 12/02/2021 8:02:53 PM PST by Yogafist
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To: wiseprince

After the dems boxed the repubs in with the staged insurrection, my thought has been the only way we are going to change course will be when the centrist dems push back on the loons. Any pushback from our side will bring calls of white supremacy, and the repubs don’t have the spine to fight through that.


40 posted on 12/02/2021 8:13:17 PM PST by Max_850
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