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On December 20th a handful of Republican senators shuffled before an audience of reporters prepared to issue fiery polemics on the year-end omnibus bill which sat, heavy and ponderous in all its eight-ream absurdity on a wheeled cart…

by Victor Skinner   Emergency allotments for food benefits were more than $2 billion nationwide from March 2020 to this past December. Congressional passage and Democratic President Joe Biden’s signing of the $1.7 trillion omnibus…

by Jared Gould   The national debt is growing, but Congress’ recent spending bill is a telltale sign that it has no intention of shrinking the deficit. After receiving bipartisan support in the Senate, the House passed a 1.7 trillion…

by Jarrett Stepman   The GOP’s omnibus betrayal is complete. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and 17 other Republicans joined Democrats as the Senate passed a $1.85 trillion monstrosity of a spending bill Thursday that…

  We can expect someone like Chris Pappas, who has a rubber spine and padded kneecaps, to vote online with his Progressive party, but the second sin is to remain unaccountable for what he did and tout his actions to the people of New…

by Madeleine Hubbard   The Senate on Thursday passed a massive $1.7 billion omnibus spending bill, sending the bill to the House for a hasty vote before midnight Friday to avert a partial government shutdown. The bill includes…

Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson (R) joined with his colleagues Senators Rick Scott (R-FL), Mike Lee (R-UT), Mike Braun (R-IN), and Rand Paul (R-KY) to oppose the $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill and argue for an amendment that would…

Comment on this storyCommentThe Senate on Thursday raced to adopt a sprawling, roughly $1.7 trillion bill that would fund the government through most of 2023, as Democrats and Republicans resolved a last-minute standoff over immigration…

The list of amendments ran the gamut.Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., expects to get a vote on her amendment to backfill the cash-strapped World Trade Center Health Fund for first-responders who got sick after the 9/11 cleanup efforts.…

Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) on Wednesday said failing to pass the omnibus spending bill would send a signal far beyond the corridors of Capitol Hill. If it passes, the sweeping government funding package for fiscal 2023 “sends a…