Both parties do NOT want a Government shutdown…..
Most of the lwamkaers will be happy…
Some won’t….
Some things made the cut…
Some things did Not….
Democrats mostly ran the show on this….
After Jan.1?
Things won’t be this easy for Congress with the House majority Republican by a small margin…
Given that the 4,155-page package is the final, must-pass legislation for this Congress, lawmakers stuffed it with dozens of funding priorities and unrelated bipartisan measures, including an overhaul of the electoral vote counting law that former President Donald J. Trump tried to use to overturn the election and a ban on the Chinese-owned TikTok on government devices. The package also includes earmarks, rebranded for a second consecutive year as community project funding, that allow lawmakers to divert some money to specific projects in their districts and states.
The release of the legislation was delayed Monday in part by a prolonged tussle between the Virginia and Maryland delegations over the criteria that will determine a new location for the F.B.I. headquarters, according to four people briefed on the negotiations.
The two states — backed by senior Democrats like Representative Steny H. Hoyer of Maryland and Senator Mark Warner of Virginia — have been in a long-running battle to be the home of the F.B.I. as it plans to move from downtown Washington into the suburbs. After frenzied negotiations, the two delegations agreed to language requiring the government to have detailed consultations with teams from both states before picking a site, a Senate Democratic aide said.
The package also sets aside billions of dollars more for emergency aid, including more than $40 billion for Ukraine, higher than the $37.7 billion the White House requested. It also provides around $40 billion to help communities across the country recover from hurricanes, wildfires and droughts in the last year.
The package also contains a bipartisan measure to overhaul the Electoral Count Act, the archaic statute at the heart of one of Mr. Trump’s unsuccessful efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. And it includes plans intended to improve the nation’s response to future pandemics.
In their effort to secure at least 10 Republican votes to avoid a filibuster, Democrats were forced to abandon a number of priorities, including reviving lapsed expanded payments to most families with children, emergency aid to counter the ongoing toll of the coronavirus pandemic and a bid to lift the cap on the nation’s borrowing limit before an expected deadline next year.
Republicans, led by Senators Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the minority leader, and Richard C. Shelby of Alabama, the vice chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, stressed their success in negotiating more funding for the military, as some conservatives balked at the overall spending increase and lamented that they could have had a stronger negotiating hand had party leaders waited until they controlled the House majority…..
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The omnibus also proposed nearly $773 billion for domestic programs, which included a significant increase in federal funding for veterans and new money meant to improve child-care programs, combat substance abuse and help needy families access food.
“The pain of inflation on American families is real, and it is being felt right now across the federal government,” Leahy said in a statement, adding the bill “directly invests in providing relief from the burden of inflation on the American people.”
Lawmakers also provided new money for some of Biden’s top accomplishments, including bipartisan laws to boost U.S. infrastructure and to promote the domestic manufacturing of small computer chips, known as semiconductors. And the bill provisioned about $40 billion in emergency funds in response to recent natural disasters, including Hurricane Ian.
“As communities across the country work to rebuild after unprecedented natural disasters, this bill provides the urgently needed support to help families, small businesses, and entire towns and cities get back on their feet and repair damaged infrastructure,” DeLauro said.
But Democrats did not secure all of the spending they sought. In the days before negotiators released their measure, Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), a member of the chamber’s Appropriations Committee, warned the party would see “painful cuts,” but acknowledged that even that was “a lot better than it would be” if lawmakers had simply extended existing funding levels.
Republicans also refused to relent in their long-standing opposition to delivering new money to respond to the coronavirus pandemic. The White House had asked for $22.4 billion, largely to purchase and facilitate the next generation of vaccines, yet GOP lawmakers refused to budge even as top administration officials warned about the risks of poor preparation….
Update…
The $1.7 trillion government funding bill released Tuesday includes extra money for the Justice Department to prosecute Jan. 6 cases, NBC News reports.