Posted on 03/22/2024 8:57:18 AM PDT by Coronal
Washington — The House passed a massive spending package on Friday to fully fund the government through September, sending it to the Senate ahead of a midnight deadline to avert a partial shutdown.
The House approved the $1.2 trillion package, which was unveiled early Thursday, in a vote of 286 to 134. The package wraps six spending bills into one to fund about three-quarters of the government until the end of the fiscal year. Another package funding the rest of the government cleared Congress two weeks ago.
A majority of Republicans voted against the measure, with House conservatives objecting to the funding levels in the agreement that House Speaker Mike Johnson reached with Democratic leadership in the Senate. The bill includes money for the departments of State, Homeland Security, Defense, Labor and Health and Human Services, as well as funds for foreign operations, financial services and the legislative branch.
Passage in the House moves Congress one step closer to ending a fight over spending that has persisted six months into the fiscal year, one that has forced lawmakers to repeatedly rely on short-term funding extensions to keep the government operating since October.
Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, waived a self-imposed 72-hour rule that gives lawmakers time to read legislation before a vote in order to get it across the finish line and send it to the Senate, giving the upper chamber just hours before the clock strikes midnight.
Senate rules that allow a single lawmaker to object to expediting a bill's passage could push a vote into Saturday. Republicans are also likely to demand votes on amendments in exchange for speeding up the process, as they did with the last funding bill. Sen. Susan Collins of Maine predicted the upper chamber could hold amendment votes as soon as Friday afternoon.
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phew. defacto devaluation of the currency so we can all enjoy the weekend.
So much for “conservative” Speaker Mike Johnson.
What a massive disappointment.
ASSHOLES.
No. TRAITOR.
MTG Files Motion to Vacate the Chair and Remove Mike Johnson as House Speaker
I’d say that the circular firing squad is back, but I don’t think they ever left.
Another trillion here, more trillions there, and pretty soon you’re talking about...
...well, I don’t even want to think about it.
“Your ATM is safe. Your banks are safe. There’s enough cash in the financial system and there’s an infinite amount of cash in the Federal Reserve.”
Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari
Weimar america
The Uniparty wins again.
Why do we even have Republicans in Congress. They are nothing but the surrender caucus.
They needed “more time” to pass appropriations bills.
No more appropriations bills have been passed, as was intended.
They just want more continuing resolutions, to eliminate the power of the purse check on the executive agencies.
Yawn...SoS.
The Democrats win again. These “Republicans” were never Republican. Democrats in Republican clothing. They punked the people good with their act. Don’t get fooled again.
Nobody paying attention every thought Mike Johnson was a principled conservative. The GOP establishment will NEVER EVER allow a conservative as House Speaker.
Johnson is just a lesser of evils. Glad to have him over McCarthy but we aren’t going to see miracles. It will mostly be more of the same with some battles won at the margins.
They can't do that because the agencies have no idea what they are even doing with what they spend now? Other than we need more for the climate and sexually confused special interest groups in each agency......to save democracy.
“... infinite amount of cash in the Federal Reserve.”
WTF! Debased currency to infinity!
The best we can do is gum up the works, and run out the clock until November.
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