Posted on 12/18/2022 11:47:31 AM PST by Right Wing Vegan
Lawmakers will be in session for one last week before the 118th Congress is seated on Jan. 3.
With the clock winding down, current members are making an 11th-hour effort to push through a a roughly $1.7 trillion Fiscal 2023 spending bill that would expand domestic and Defense programs.
If they can’t, Congress will have to pass another temporary spending bill to avert a partial shutdown before the upcoming holidays.
On the sidelines, some Democrats are pushing for their own legislative priorities to be included in the broad “omnibus” spending bill, seeking to make use of the last few days they have majority control of both chambers – and the White House – before Republicans take the House in January.
On the Democratic Christmas wish list: return of the expanded child tax credit, immigration reform and more.
(Excerpt) Read more at emeatribune.com ...
The Mother of All Pork-barrels
“Necessity never made a good bargain.” — Benjamin Franklin
When was the last time our elites did anything without crisis?
“When was the last time our self proclaimed “elites” did anything without a manufactured crisis that is designed to benefit nobody but themselves?”
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The EMEA Tribune looks at issues from a Middle Eastern, European, African, and Pakistani perspective….
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Must I be interested?
BOHICA on an epic scale with that treasonous prick McConnell rounding up 10 GOP scumbags to join him and Schmukie.
Push on for DC statehood again.
Manchin vote seen as critical...again.
Remind the RINOs supporting this spending that they are documenting that they were simply the cheapest whores available.
I expect the usual histrionics and ultimate betrayal
Amnesty is Dead .
It’s a repeating story, not an old one. And amnesty is only “dead” in the sense that the word “amnesty” is avoided in such proposals.
The story was carried on multiple news sites, so it was not an EMEA original.
Another reason why Kevin McCarthy should not be Speaker.
I remember when liberals opposed defense spending, the FBI, and the intelligence community.
Of course, that was before everyone in Washington became supporters of the Neocon-Globalist American Empire & Police State.
Spending money we do not have.
Heard there are some scumbag GOP pukes signing on to this
Shut it down...
TIMES 1000.
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