The House and Senate jettisoned Sen. Manchin’s deal and agreed to a ‘stop gap’ ‘Contiuuing Resolution’ budget fix till Dec.16….
Oh, and they added another $12.4 Billion for what maybe come the American 51 state , the Ukraine….
The President does NOT get addtional money for covid and monkeypox testing and treatment….
Actually?
The state’s have been spending a lot of previous covid money for bricks and motar stuff up to now….
Once Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) agreed to remove language from the legislation that would have overhauled federal rules for permitting large energy projects, the bill easily overcame a procedural vote in the evenly divided Senate on Tuesday, signaling a probable glide path to final passage.
The legislation includes $12.4 billion in military and diplomatic assistance for Ukraine in its now seven-month-long war with Russia but does not include money the Biden administration requested for vaccines, testing and treatment for the coronavirus or monkeypox….
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“This legislation avoids a very bad thing — shutting down the government — and does a lot of good things: money for the people of Ukraine, funding for communities reeling from natural disasters, aid to families with their heating bills, just to name a few,” Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) said on the floor just before the vote. “… I’m glad we came to a timely conclusion and didn’t come right up to the brink and risk a shutdown. Millions and millions of people can breathe easy knowing that we have done this in a timely way and the money to continue the government will be there.”
The federal government’s fiscal year ends Friday night at midnight, and without a new law to fund the government, it would have had to shut down.