Posted on 12/22/2022 8:12:18 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) on Thursday morning announced an agreement to advance the $1.7 trillion omnibus bill before Christmas weekend.
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Democrats have been working to pass the omnibus bill before a self-imposed deadline of Thursday to avoid a shutdown at midnight on Friday. But negotiations become sticky after Sen. Mike Lee’s (R-UT) Title 42 amendment threw a wrench in the Senate process. As a result, many critics of the deal were hopeful Congress would be forced to pass a short-term spending resolution (CR) to keep the government open, pending a continued standoff between Democrats on Lee’s amendment.
If Congress passed a short-term CR to keep the government open until February, conservative House Republicans would receive a significant victory. Defeating the omnibus bill would improve House Republicans’ position in the new Congress to gut many of the proposals in the massive spending bill. One of those proposals to cut would presumably have been the $45 billion worth of aid to Ukraine. The $45 billion is in addition to the $66 billion Congress already approved for Ukraine.
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CALL YOUR SENATORS!! NOW!! DEM and PUB!!!!
The pigs are too selfish and greeddy to ruin their Christmas over doing the right thing for the people.
I hope the bastards choke on their ham and they all get covid.
Before the next election cycle, this will be the GOP's refrain...
And the GOP message as usual will be “We Suck A Little Less!”
What’s for Christmas PORK and a lot of it.
Where’s the principled hero Munchin?
good job Mike Lee. keep fighting. make the traitors vote on Christmas Eve.
Where’s my shocked face?
Nope. Just bent over.
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