Congress passes a 2019/2020 spending bill….

Against a backdrop of impeachment?

Congressional Democrats and Republicans agree to a spending deal that will keep the American government until September next year, which would be 60 days or so before the general election…

In the age of no earmarks?

Both parties got goodies we the taxpayer will pay for….

Donald Trump will sign the bill today…

 

In the detail’s?

Lawmakers have made numerous exceptions to Donald Trump’s policies…

There will be pay raises for government employees…

Trump will get not increase in wall money…

White House employee’s will NOT get a raise..

The Census people get more money…

The IRS gets more money…

The law prohibits the Trump admin from moving anymore department employees offices out of Wash DC without an Ok from lawmakers

The law deals with Trump’s withholding executive staff from Congress, by making that against the law…

The law also includes language that requires departments to provide IG’s with any documents and info requested….

 

The changes in Trump policy efforts by lawmakers of course can be ignored by Donald Trump since enforcement of the law would only be HIS Bill Barr led Department of Justice….The courts have no actual way to force a President to do anything we have come to learn….

The Senate passed two “minibus” spending bills on Thursday, sending both to the president’s desk for his signature one day before current government funding runs dry.

President Donald Trump must take action before 11:59 p.m. on Friday in order to avoid a second government shutdown in 2019.

One bill includes a 3.1% federal pay raise, the largest in a decade for the civilian workforce. Specifically, it includes a 2.6% across-the-board increase in base pay with an additional 0.5% in locality adjustments, for a total average of 3.1%.

The minibus with the federal pay raise, which includes four appropriations bills, covers spending for the Defense Department, as well as the departments of Homeland Security, Commerce, Justice, Treasury and others. It easily cleared the Senate with an 81-11 vote.

The Senate also passed a second “minibus,” a package of eight appropriations bills, with a 71-23 vote. This minibus covers the departments of Agriculture, Labor, Education, Interior, Transportation and State, as well as Veterans Affairs, and Housing and Urban Development, among others.

The House had easily passed both minibus spending bills earlier this week.

If the 2020 adjustment does clear the president’s desk, it will be the largest federal pay raise employees have seen in at least a decade. Civilian employees last came close to such a raise back in 2008, when they received a 3.5% pay adjustment.

The 3.1% federal pay raise is also in line with the pay adjustment members of the military will receive in 2020….

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image…The Hill