They punted….
After days of uncertainty and Republican infighting, the House easily passed a spending bill to keep the government funded through March.
Democrats feel they defeated both President-elect Donald Trump and Elon Musk with this bill.
There is no extension of the debt limit, though Republicans have agreed to address that in the new Congress….
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The Senate GOPer’s over the House Shit show…
Senate Republicans were left fuming Thursday over what they called the dysfunctional “s‑‑‑ show” and “fiasco” they witnessed in the House as two proposals to fund the government through Christmas failed this week.
With Washington on the brink of a government shutdown, lawmakers are no closer to having a stopgap funding measure that can pass both the House and Senate and get President Biden’s signature by the end of Friday….
Biden Will sign the bill…
The White House has endorsed a revised bill funding the government, pledging to back the stopgap measure even as it blasted Republicans for reneging on an earlier bipartisan deal.
“President Biden supports moving this legislation forward and ensuring that the vital services the government provides for hardworking Americans,” press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement Friday evening, “from issuing Social Security checks to processing benefits for veterans.”…
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“While it does not include everything we sought, it includes disaster relief that the President requested for the communities recovering from the storm, eliminates the accelerated pathway to a tax cut for billionaires, and would ensure that the government can continue to operate at full capacity,” Jean-Pierre said in her statement….
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President Musk approves of the job House GOP Speaker has done….
Update….
Here are eight policies included in the original bill that Johnson and GOP leaders left out of the revised proposal.
It’s done…..
The Senate in the early hours of Saturday passed a stopgap funding package, avoiding a government shutdown that would have furloughed hundreds of thousands of federal workers and bringing a tumultuous week in Congress to a close.
Senators voted 85-11 to approve a continuing resolution (CR) that extends funding at current levels until March 14, provides more than $100 billion in disaster assistance to areas ravaged by hurricanes and other storms and includes economic assistance for farmers….
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