The Senate passed a $1.2 trillion government funding bill early Saturday, averting a government shutdown.
senate I voted “Minibus” government spending bill passed 74-24. The bill passed the House of Representatives on Friday morning. As Breitbart News’ Bradley Jay reported, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) is trying to pass the government funding bill despite opposition from the majority of House Republicans. Violated the starting rules.
minibus spending package include Funding bills for the Department of Defense (DOD), Department of Labor (DOL), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and other departments of the federal government.
Sen. John Kennedy (R-Louisiana) lamented that it is “typical” and “childish” for the Senate to wait until the last minute to avoid a government shutdown.
NBC News reported:
A divided Congress narrowly avoided multiple shutdowns this session, passing four stopgap bills that continued to extend deadlines. And now, nearly six months into the fiscal year, haggling over financing plans has begun unusually late. The latest bill was announced Thursday and passed the House of Representatives on Friday morning, leaving little time for the Senate to act.
For a while, those talks seemed to have broken down at noon Friday, but Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) claimed the deal was scuttled by weak Democrats in key Senate races. and insisted there was no need to vote on the amendment. It could be used against them in their re-election campaign.
“The bottom line is that Democratic senators running for re-election are afraid to vote for the amendment,” said Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas).senate I voted An amendment to add the Laken-Riley Act to the funding bill was blocked by a vote of 51-47.
As Breitbart News’ John Binder explained, the Laken Riley Act “allows illegal aliens who have been arrested, charged, or convicted of crimes such as robbery, theft, theft, and shoplifting to be brought to the Department of Homeland Security.” (DHS) to take them into custody.”
Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) said, “Rather than allow us to vote on things like deporting criminal immigrants, Senate Democrats are trying to shut down the government. is committed to opening our borders.”
Senate Democrats are trying to shut down the government rather than allow us to vote on things like deporting criminal immigrants.
No matter what they say, they are committed to opening borders.
— JD Vance (@JDVance1) March 23, 2024
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