Congress approves $1.3-trillion spending bill, averting government shutdown

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Congress approved a $1.3-trillion spending bill after hours of wrangling and a flurry of unsuccessful Democratic efforts to force legislators to take up a measure to protect young immigrants brought to the country illegally as children.

The vote — late Thursday morning for the House and early Friday for the Senate — came as legislators faced a Friday deadline for a government shutdown. It also came just hours after the release of the 2,232-page bill, meaning that few voting on the measure had a clear idea of what it included, as members openly admitted.

The measure, which passed 256 to 167 in the House and 65 to 32 in the Senate, will go to President Trump, who has promised to sign it. The Senate vote was delayed over objections from a number of senators including Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who complained leaders were trying to push through the bill.

Paul forced an hours-long shutdown in February over a similar complaint that leaders were ramming through a complicated bill.

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-congress-budget-vote-20180322-story.html

[Achilleaze]

1. Will Dirty Donny* pee all over this, and shut America down?

It would be so much in keeping with his, um, character as the republican family-values role model.

* aka republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief

[AJT]

2. The GOP wants to blow up the deficit before they get trounced in the

next election cycle so they can blame the dems for not fixing the deficit they created.

[Vinca]

3. Shame we'll have to put it all on the Chinese credit card thanks to tax cuts for billionaires.

What . . . China's lowered the credit limit? Gee . . . wonder why.

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4. remember when they claimed they were the party of fiscal responsibility?