Not sure what your real complaint is. Spending bills are SUPPOSED to originate in the house, not the senate. Secondly, the power of the purse is the only true power the congress has vs the executive branch, so not passing stupid spending bills is exercising power of the purse just as much as passing spending bills is. So what would you prefer to happen here?
As to house leadership needing to get its crap together and stop jerking the people they represent around, I couldn’t agree more.
This is a “shell” bill where they delete some legislation then insert the spending which gets round that provision
No more money for Zelensky and Joe Bribey funneled through Ukraine for starters.
It might be different if they were really trying to win a war
They’re not.