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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Ah the standard RINOmney-level bending over and assuming the Sec of Transpo stance.
The politicians all need more condos in Hawaii.
Sold out by Cocaine Mitch...Again.
Does Zelenskyy get one too?
re-instate the “unvaccinated” soldiers with back pay and any benefits....then pass the damn thing.
If Chucky was willing to double cross a member of his own caucus (Manchin) what do Republican Senators think will happen to them?
.....and the band played on.
WOW, didn’t see this one coming, you could knock me over with a feather...
RINOs are the REAL enemy. We know how evil Schumer is, but RINOs are like the Vichy French.
This may be the split conversion on McCarthy and McConnell.
We’re screwed again, as usual. Thanks, Schmucky.
The RINOs in the house are in on it as well. It just gives them cover for a year.
Cheap suits are protesting.
It will be a nice place to go when he is not at his ski Chateau in Zermatt.
I’m tired of losing.
Billions of those dollars will wind up in peoples’ personal bank accounts.
It’s a Christmas Catastrophy!
We’re just going to have to ride the economy all the way down. There is no fixing what’s coming…..
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