Gone is the Joe Biden being in the class of FDR….
Gone is the Progressives dreams…
Joe Manchin’s and Republican’s view of things IS what WILl be what Biden sign’s off on…
Oh? and the Pentagon gets more money…..
Reality politics bites….
The total, $1.5 trillion initiative reflects a dramatic shift in Washington, which under President Biden had been operating under a series of temporary spending patches that generally had frozen the federal government at older funding levels. It meant the White House could not achieve its grandest ambitions to boost federal programs in health care, education, science and research, despite issuing a budget last year that called for rejuvenating these agencies.
Now, federal domestic spending is set to reach $730 billion for the remainder of this fiscal year, a level that lawmakers described as the largest increase in nondefense money in four years. With it, Democrats also agreed to Republicans’ requests to deliver additional sums to the Pentagon, with defense funding slated to rise to $742 billion under the bill….
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“During this time of great uncertainty and change, we are tackling some of our nation’s biggest challenges, including making health care more affordable, confronting the climate crisis, and protecting our national security,” said Rep. Rosa L. DeLauro (D-Conn.), the chair of the spending-focused House Appropriations Committee.
In the Senate, the chamber’s top Republican appropriator separately heralded the compromise, which pared back some of Democrats’ initial requests while securing more defense funding.
“The Omnibus rejects liberal policies and effectively addresses Republican priorities,” said Sen. Richard C. Shelby (R-Ala.). “The House and Senate should act quickly and send it to the President.”…
The story of this Congress will the Democratic majority that wasn’t…..
Republicans are trying to add amendments to the spending bill….
Any would have to send the bill back to the House which is out of session for a week….
The Bill needs passage by Tuesday May 15…
Congress and the Admin CAN use tricks to extend the deadline as they have in the past…
Remember ‘Earmarks’?
Essentially a way for buying lawmakers votes with pet projects money…
After an 11-year drought, congressional earmarks are back with vengeance.
The $1.5 trillion, 2,741-page omnibus spending package is loaded with funding for lawmaker pet projects, some of which could help incumbents in this fall’s elections.
The legislation includes more than 4,000 earmarks, according to a list of projects provided to The Hill by a Senate Republican aide that spanned 367 pages….
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Update…
Republican Senators efforts to add amendments to the spending bill fail….
Changes would have had to been approved by the House which is not in session….
Post will be done later with what’s in th massive bill…
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“This bipartisan funding package is a significant and far reaching win for the American people and I’m glad the Senate moved as quickly today as I hoped we would. To my colleagues on both sides of the aisle I say bravo, a job well done,” Schumer added.
All of the 31 no votes came from Republicans. But top GOP leaders, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.), backed the bill.
Passage of the legislation comes after months of negotiations between the House and Senate Appropriations Committees and congressional leaders. The 2022 fiscal year started on Oct. 1, 2021, but lawmakers averted a government shutdown by passing a stopgap measure hours before a Sept. 30 deadline to fund the government and kicked the can two more times.
The two-day sprint to pass the sprawling funding measure wasn’t without drama….
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