Senate passes stopgap spending bill to avert government shutdown

NY Post ^ | 09/30/2021 | Juliegrace Brufke

[ChicagoConservative27]

The Senate passed a standalone continuing resolution aimed at averting a government shutdown on Thursday, which will keep the government funded until December.

The House is expected to easily pass the measure later in the day ahead of current funding expiring at midnight. The stopgap bill includes language to keep the government funded through Dec. 3 — in addition to disaster relief funding and funding to aid with the resettlement of Afghan refugees.

Its passage comes after Senate Republicans blocked a House-passed short-term spending bill that included language to raise the debt ceiling, saying they will not support increasing the federal government’s borrowing limit as Democrats look to pass a sweeping multi-trillion dollar social spending bill.

[ChicagoConservative27]

GROSS.

[unixfox]

Courage.

[JonPreston]

😂 tell me again why you’re a Republican.

[Sarah Barracuda]

YAY more money to give to the Govt who do nothing with it except spend it on utter nonsense

[Blood of Tyrants]

The absolute worst thing that could happen (according to politicians) is for the people to find out that they don’t need government.

[JoSixChip]

How many billions for Afghan resettlement?

[rigelkentaurus]

Which RINOs voted with the Rats on this? I’ve searched the interweb thingy and not found the newest list of traders.

[wiseprince]

Stop gaps! Great way to run the country.

[Gene Eric]

Winging it until they all work out their cut.

[snarkytart]

Spend it on utter evil.. pushing far left wing divisive politics

FCK GOP

[Sarah Barracuda]

I bet a few Republicans in name only vote for that Infrastructure Bill which has absolutely NOTHING to do with actual infrastructure, but has everything to do with the green new deal and giving voting rights to illegals

[Billyv]

The GOP surrenders quicker than the French Army.

[rllngrk33]

Welcome to the yearly government shutdown theater. This is just kicking the can down the road until December. Then we'll repeat it again and again until sometime in the spring when we'll get an omnibus spending bill to cover the rest of the year.

A year from now we'll repeat this again, just like we've done for the last couple of decades.

[Semper Vigilantis]

Votes list comes up about an hour after the vote.

[Roadrunner383]

Dems backed down.

Dems had said it was impossible to separate funding the Fed. Gov’t from raising the debt ceiling, trying to force Republicans to vote to raise the debt ceiling. The media took the bait and accused Republicans of trying to shut down the Fed Gov’t.

Lo and behold Dems suddenly discovered the two items were completely separate. The media should ask why Dems waited weeks and risked shutting down the Fed Gov’t, but the media won’t.

[Semper Vigilantis]

Vote Summary

Question: On Passage of the Bill (H.R. 5305, As Amended )
Vote Number: 397
Vote Date: September 30, 2021, 01:11 PM
Required For Majority: 3/5
Vote Result: Bill Passed
Measure Number: H.R. 5305 (Extending Government Funding and Delivering Emergency Assistance Act )
Measure Title: A bill making continuing appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2022, and for providing emergency assistance, and for other purposes.
Vote Counts:
YEAs 65
NAYs 35

*Information compiled through Senate LIS by the Senate bill clerk under the direction of the secretary of the Senate

YEAs -—65
Baldwin (D-WI)
Bennet (D-CO)
Blumenthal (D-CT)
Blunt (R-MO)
Booker (D-NJ)
Brown (D-OH)
Burr (R-NC)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Capito (R-WV)
Cardin (D-MD)
Carper (D-DE)
Casey (D-PA)
Cassidy (R-LA)
Collins (R-ME)
Coons (D-DE)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Cortez Masto (D-NV)
Duckworth (D-IL)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Gillibrand (D-NY)
Graham (R-SC)
Hassan (D-NH)
Heinrich (D-NM)
Hickenlooper (D-CO)
Hirono (D-HI)
Kaine (D-VA)
Kelly (D-AZ)
Kennedy (R-LA)
King (I-ME)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Leahy (D-VT)
Lujan (D-NM)
Manchin (D-WV)
Markey (D-MA)
McConnell (R-KY)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Merkley (D-OR)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Murphy (D-CT)
Murray (D-WA)
Ossoff (D-GA)
Padilla (D-CA)
Peters (D-MI)
Reed (D-RI)
Romney (R-UT)
Rosen (D-NV)
Rounds (R-SD)
Sanders (I-VT)
Schatz (D-HI)
Schumer (D-NY)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Shelby (R-AL)
Sinema (D-AZ)
Smith (D-MN)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Tester (D-MT)
Tillis (R-NC)
Van Hollen (D-MD)
Warner (D-VA)
Warnock (D-GA)
Warren (D-MA)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wyden (D-OR)
Young (R-IN)

[fireman15]

Mitch McConnel Cowardly lion.

[Organic Panic]

WHEW! Golly I sure was worried the government would “shut down.”

[abbastanza]

We know the idiots that will vote with the RATs. Same ones that voted to impeach Trump.

[Bayard]

They were going to do this sometime. Its absolutely no solution to the overspending of the government. I don’t know how they expect to justify this, unless they know that the 3.5T isn’t going through. I’d be extremely skeptical about that.