The House voted on 2,313 pages of profligacy. The spending bill(s) to cover the fiscal year that began nearly three months ago sports a 41.4 trillion price tag. It was foisted upon Congress two days ago. No one has read it. It extends the Export-Import Bank for seven years. It funds government research on gun control No siree, there won't be any agenda driving that "research." Continues tax breaks for play-like energy forms. Continues to fund the extermination of fetal Americans by Planned Parenthood.
My understanding is that, due to the bad taste that omnibus spending bills have left in post-America's mouth, this behemoth has been split into two bills. Still comes to $1.4 trillion.
I guess the Senate is going to vote on it / them today. Will be watching for that. And then it / they go to the White House for the VSG to either sign or veto. You'll recall that in March 2018 he said he'd never sign anything like the $1.3 trillion package that was before him at the time. Maybe he'll do the right thing this time, but I'd say the smart money is on him using the excuse that it's two bills to sign. He's as spooked by the specter of a government shutdown as every other Beltway officeholder.
Congress is comprised of mostly unserious people. The one thing they can muster up any seriousness for is getting reelected.
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