Category: omnibus spending bill

Democrats Warn That Congress Is Still Heading Toward a Shutdown Despite Agreement on Budget

June 16, 2023
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Democrats warn that Congress is still facing the threat of a shutdown at the end of the year, despite an agreement on the Federal budget. The agreement earlier this month between House Republicans and the Democrats was supposed to create a bipartisan framework for annual spending bills that would take a government shutdown off the…

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10 House Republicans Support Texas AG’s Bid to Block Omnibus Spending Bill

April 12, 2023
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Ten House Republicans have backed a lawsuit that aims to prevent implementation of the $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill passed in December by striking down the congressional practice of proxy voting. In an April 11 amicus brief obtained by The Epoch Times, the lawmakers supported Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s motion for a preliminary injunction…

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An Old Debt Carries Over to a New Year

December 29, 2022
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Commentary “Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.”—Herbert Hoover “Rather go to bed without dinner than to rise in debt.”—Benjamin Franklin Eighteen Republican senators voted for the monstrosity known as the $1.7 trillion Omnibus spending bill, thus forever relinquishing their claim to belong to a party committed to less spending, smaller government, and…

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Republicans Should Just Say No to Any Budget That Funds 87,000 New IRS Agents

December 27, 2022
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Commentary One of the biggest promises by Republicans in the 2022 election season was that if they won a majority in the House, they would defund the $80 billion that Biden wants to hire 87,000 new IRS agents. But now they are about to agree to a $1.7 trillion omnibus spending deal with President Joe…

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Millions of Americans Set to Be Removed From Medicaid After Passage of Omnibus Bill

December 26, 2022
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Millions of U.S. citizens who enrolled in the Medicaid insurance program during the COVID-19 pandemic could soon lose their coverage due to the passage of the $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill. Back in January 2020, the Trump administration declared a public health emergency (PHE) that has been renewed every 90 days since. The Families First…

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Senate Passes $1.8 Trillion Spending Bill, Rejects Saving Title 42

December 22, 2022
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A round-robin series of crucial last-minute decisions by senators anxious to wrap up their work before Christmas resulted in a decisive 68–29 vote to approve the controversial $1.85 trillion omnibus spending bill to keep the federal government open well into the New Year. The vote represented a big win for Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer…

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McCarthy Tells Senate Republicans to Trust Him as the Next House Speaker

December 22, 2022
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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told Senate Republicans at a luncheon on Dec. 21 that they should have faith in him to lead the House Republican majority in the next Congress, according to The Hill. “It was a unifying message, he talked about how we need to work better together than we have in…

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McCarthy Asks Senate Republicans to Trust Him in House Speaker Role

December 22, 2022
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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told Senate Republicans at a luncheon on Dec. 21 that they should have faith in him to lead the House Republican majority in the next Congress, according to The Hill. “It was a unifying message, he talked about how we need to work better together than we have in…

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GOP Senator to Offer Amendment Removing $9.8 Billion in Omnibus Earmarks

December 21, 2022
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Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) will offer an amendment to the nearly 5,000-page $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill that, if adopted by the lame-duck Senate, would erase more than 4,000 earmarks from the measure. “There are, let me get the exact numbers, $9.8 billion worth of earmarks. Thousands of individual projects here—both Democrat and Republican,” Johnson…

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Capitol Report: Lawmakers Rush to Pass $1.7 Trillion to Avert Shutdown; Rep. Biggs’s Plan for Opposing McCarthy as Speaker

December 20, 2022
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Lawmakers unveiled a $1.7 trillion spending bill in the early hours of Tuesday. Congress must pass this massive bill or a temporary funding bill to prevent a government shutdown this week. House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy says he’ll whip a no vote, calling it a “monstrosity.” What’s in it? A newly elected congresswoman says she…

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