Senate passes mammoth spending bill just one day before shutdown deadline

[mystery-ak]

December 22, 2022 2:21pm EST
Senate passes $1.7 trillion spending bill with help from Republicans
The mammoth bill keeps government funded until end of September 2023

By Haris Alic | Fox News

The Senate on Thursday approved a $1.7 trillion spending bill with help from more than a dozen Republican lawmakers, after a fight over immigration policy nearly derailed the legislation.

In an 68-29 vote, the Senate passed a bill that provides $858 billion for defense, $787 billion for non-defense domestic programs and nearly $45 billion for military and humanitarian aid to Ukraine. The more than 4,000-page bill funds the government for the rest of the fiscal year, and includes more than 7,200 earmarks totaling more than $15 billion.

Senate passage sends the bill to the House, where Speaker Nancy Pelosi is expected to hold a vote as early as Thursday evening in order to let lawmakers depart for the Christmas holiday.

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[Right_in_Virginia]

In a 68-29 vote   

[Right_in_Virginia]

Greg Price
@greg_price11

Here are the 18 Republican senators who voted for the $1.7 trillion omnibus:

Blunt, Boozman, Capito, Collins, Cornyn, Cotton, Graham, Inhofe, McConnell, Moran, Murkowski, Portman, Romney, Rounds, Shelby, Thune, Wicker, Young.

In addition, there were three senators who didn't even show up to vote all of whom were Republicans: Barasso, Sasse, and Burr.

Merry Christmas, America!

2:59 PM · Dec 22, 2022

[Right_in_Virginia]

Greg Price
@greg_price11

I'm looking forward to 7% approval rating of Mitch McConnell's next lecture on candidate quality after leading the charge to take away the new GOP House majority's leverage over the budget for an entire year.

2:35 PM · Dec 22, 2022

[Right_in_Virginia]

Dan Bishop
@jdanbishop

I never want to hear any of the Republicans who voted for this monstrosity pretend that they’re for fiscal sanity or border security ever again.

2:28 PM · Dec 22, 2022

[mystery-ak]

Shaheen: $1.7 Trillion Omnibus Won’t Be Inflationary Because It Funds Programs that Already Exist

Ian Hanchett 22 Dec 2022

On Thursday’s “CNN Newsroom,” Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) stated that she doesn’t think that the $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill will make inflation worse because it funds programs that already exist.

Co-host Jim Sciutto asked, “[Y]ou guys are going to vote and get this 1.7 trillion spending bill passed. It’s got a lot in there. But I wonder, the topline figure is quite big. And it’s not far off — the most recent COVID relief bill, which was 1.9 trillion, which some have blamed for being inflationary, and I wonder, as folks are watching right now, should they be concerned at all that pumping all this money into the economy right now might prolong inflation?”

Shaheen responded, “I don’t think so. What this bill does is to fund government programs that are already underway and also initiatives that [fund] our military, for example. There’s a pay raise for our men and women serving in the military in that bill. And all of that, I think, is good for the United States. It provides certainty to, not just those people who are serving, but people like the first responders in New Hampshire who are dealing with — still dealing with a major opioid epidemic. So, I think it’s very important that we get this done and hopefully get it done today.”

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2022/12/22/shaheen-1-7-trillion-omnibus-wont-be-inflationary-because-it-funds-programs-that-already-exist/

[christian]

tHE SLEAZY DIRTY TRICKS DEMOCRATS TRANSITIONALLY PULL TO GET CRAP LIKE THIS PASSED.  aT LEAST TRUMP DIDN'T PULL THIS CRAP, SO EVERYTHING IS RIGHT, BLESSED, AND COULDN'T BE WRONG EVEN IF IT COULD BE.
tHIS IS HOW WHORES OF HELL REIGN, AND ATTRACT BUNCHES OF LITTLE WHORES TO VOTE FOR THEM.

you own it!

[Hoodat]

December 22, 2022 2:21pm EST
Senate passes $1.7 trillion spending bill with help from Republicans
The mammoth bill keeps government funded until end of September 2023

By Haris Alic | Fox News

The Senate on Thursday approved a $1.7 trillion spending bill with help from more than a dozen Republican lawmakers, after a fight over immigration policy nearly derailed the legislation.

.  .  .  .

Senate passage sends the bill to the House, where Speaker Nancy Pelosi is expected to hold a vote as early as Thursday evening in order to let lawmakers depart for the Christmas holiday.

Article I, Section 7

All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives

[Smokin Joe]

Article I, Section 7

All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives

Which was my objection to the "fee"/"tax"/penalty for not getting Obamacare.

That, too, originated in the Senate.

In the absence of a severability clause, that alone should have been enough to take the ACA down.

[mystery-ak]

Here are five key last-minute changes made to the omnibus spending bill
by Rachel Schilke, Breaking News Reporter |
December 23, 2022 08:57 AM

The Senate passed the $1.7 trillion omnibus package on Thursday, sending the bill to the House in a final effort to avoid a government shutdown.

Now, House Democrats are hoping for a swift passage of the 4,155-page bill that includes billions in defense spending, non-defense discretionary spending, and aid for Ukraine, among countless other provisions.

Senators voted on a series of 15 amendments during the hours-long session, with the package passing 68-29. Below are five last-minute changes added to the spending bill.

Forfeited property to aid Ukraine

Offered by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), this amendment would "authorize the transfer of the proceeds of certain forfeited property to help Ukraine.”

The forfeited property would include areas possessed by or formerly controlled by someone who was subject to sanctions from the Secretaries of State or the Treasury.

The amendment passed in a voice vote, as Tuesday marked the 300th day since Russia invaded Ukraine. Graham, along with Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), and Roger Wicker (R-MS), proposed the legislation months ago seeking to divert the assets from Russian oligarchs to support the U.S.'s efforts to aid Ukraine.

“This change in U.S. law allows the proceeds of seized assets to support Ukrainian war efforts, which is a win-win for the people of Ukraine and the American taxpayer," Graham said in a statement following the vote. "I expect over time billions of dollars in seized assets will be sent to help Ukraine in their fight for freedom. Our amendment also takes pressure off the American taxpayer.”

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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/five-changes-omnibus-spending-bill

[Hoodat]

In the absence of a severability clause, that alone should have been enough to take the ACA down.

And it would have been had Republicans been interested in taking it down.

[Right_in_Virginia]

"Based GOP Senator Mike Lee publicly tears apart weak-spined Republicans who passed bloated Omnibus bill🔥"  (Video)

https://mobile.twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1606360646202818571

[kevindavis007]

@JustinWStapley
As a reminder, in 2017 when Republicans controlled both Houses of Congress and the WH, they passed a gargantuan Trillion dollar omnibus themselves as they jettisoned fiscal conservatism under Trump's leadership and did nothing during his admin to balance the budget.


@JustinWStapley
Fiscal conservatism should be a GOVERNING PHILOSOPHY, not simply a tool for political opposition.

https://twitter.com/JustinWStapley/status/1607247344700952578

[Hoodat]

Senate passes mammoth spending bill just one day before shutdown deadline

Biden hasn't signed it yet.  So why hasn't the government been shut down?  The deadline has passed, correct?