Update: Early Saturday morning, the Senate overwhelmingly approved the bill by a margin of 85-11, with most Democrats and Republicans supporting the measure.
Senators voted to pass a new version of a stopgap spending bill early Saturday morning after the midnight deadline for a partial government shutdown came and went.
Original Story
The Senate advanced the third version of a short-term spending bill, and it will now head to President Biden’s desk, who has already signaled that he will sign it.
This comes after the House passed the short-term spending bill with 366 yes votes, surpassing the necessary two-thirds.
Since obligations of federal funds are incurred and tracked daily, agencies will not shut down and may continue normal operations.
Mike Johnson said Donald Trump backs the bill.
The Big Wins
- FEMA gets $29 billion for hurricane relief
- Farmers score $20 billion for disaster aid
- Another $10 billion goes straight to farmers’ pockets for economic support
- No more money for that State Department censorship outfit (the “Global Engagement Center”)
- No protection for the January 6th Committee
- Lawmakers won’t see a pay raise this year
This Is Incredibly Well-Said!
Incredibly well said
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This is the first victory of Elen and Vivek, who managed to scuttle most of the porkulus, not all, but a significant amount. I’m sure there are many provisions that the crime syndicate masquerading as the Democratic UniParty managed to pass, but far fewer than they initially expected. It’s still a long way from the 2 trillion. Just departing all the 50 million illegals and their children will take a big bite out of the DOGE goal.
Yes, definitely got some good things. Lets hope they don’t send the FEMA money somewhere else again. Now what did the Demo’s get??
Something strange happened yesterday to get all those democrats onboard, usually the republican leadership cowers and folds and the democrats always prevail because of weakness, more like mutual intended corruption. Standing down on important issues is the same as voting with them.