{"id":1368806,"date":"2022-03-10T05:39:59","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T10:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1368806"},"modified":"2022-03-10T10:41:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T15:41:00","slug":"house-passes-1-5-trillion-spending-bill-without-covid-19-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-passes-1-5-trillion-spending-bill-without-covid-19-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"House Passes $1.5 Trillion Spending Bill Without COVID-19 Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhouse-passes-1-5-trillion-spending-bill-without-covid-19-funding%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1368806&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/03\/Screen-Shot-2022-03-10-at-9.46.14-AM.png?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Just two days before the federal government would have shut down, the United States House of Representatives voted on Wednesday evening to pass its $1.5 trillion spending bill.<\/p>\n<p>The bill includes a massive aid package for Ukraine as well as money to keep the government running through September, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&#038;rct=j&#038;q=&#038;esrc=s&#038;source=web&#038;cd=&#038;cad=rja&#038;uact=8&#038;ved=2ahUKEwi458Ll3bv2AhXMlIkEHQw7CB0QvOMEKAB6BAgDEAE&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2022%2F03%2F09%2Fus%2Fpolitics%2Fhouse-spending-bill.html&#038;usg=AOvVaw2gXupG-qA6OOfADpi3SBTo\">the New York Times reported<\/a>, though Democrats <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/democrats-remove-covid-funding-provision-from-omnibus-bill-after-backlash-from-republicans-own-members\">removed $15.6 billion in COVID-19 funding<\/a> after bipartisan pushback.<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden\u2019s administration had said that it urgently needed funding for pandemic testing, vaccines, therapeutics, and other efforts to stop any new COVID-19 variants, the Times reported.<\/p>\n<p>Biden administration officials, who requested $22.5 billion for pandemic efforts, initially suggested that they needed $30 billion, the publication reported. That amount was even further decreased during negotiations with Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>Concerned that the entire package would collapse due to squabbling over its contents, Democrats announced they would drop the coronavirus funding on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must proceed with the omnibus today, which includes emergency funding for Ukraine and urgent funding to meet the needs of America\u2019s families,\u201d House Speaker Nancy Pelosi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/democrats-remove-covid-funding-provision-from-omnibus-bill-after-backlash-from-republicans-own-members\">said<\/a> as she announced the removal of the COVID funding Wednesday. \u201cIt is heartbreaking to remove the COVID funding, and we must continue to fight for urgently needed COVID assistance, but unfortunately that will not be included in this bill.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The bill <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/09\/house-passes-government-funding-fy2022\/\">includes<\/a> $13.6 billion in aid for Ukraine as well as a 5.6% increase in overall defense spending, totaling $782 billion, boosting discretionary domestic spending 6.7% to $730 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Pro-life lawmakers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/massive-spending-bill-could-funnel-millions-to-abortion-industry-lawmakers-warn\">had expressed grave concerns<\/a> to The Daily Wire Wednesday that the massive omnibus spending bill could funnel millions to the abortion lobby.<\/p>\n<p>The spending bill includes $575 million for \u201cfamily planning\u201d internationally, Texas Republican Rep. Chip Roy pointed out, $286 million for Title X funding to \u201ckeep the lights on at Planned Parenthood, $32.5 million for the pro-abortion U.N. Population Fund, and $200 million for a brand new \u201cGender Equity and Equality Action Fund\u201d to help promote abortion across the globe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHouse Democrats are reminding us that they are religiously pro-abortion, and that they want to export their extremism everywhere,\u201d Roy told The Daily Wire on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course, this is just political payback for the abortion industry at taxpayer expense,\u201d he added. \u201cThe American people need to say \u2018enough\u2019 and stop funding violent tyranny over the lives of the unborn.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Republican Indiana Rep. Jim Banks told The Daily Wire on Wednesday afternoon that the worst part of the bill is the \u201cmassive windfall\u201d it gives to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and to its pro-abortion secretary, Xavier Becerra.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSecretary Becerra is an anti-life radical who supports partial birth abortion,\u201d Banks said. \u201cHis budget increased by nearly 10%, and he\u2019ll use that money to pursue his anti-life agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the most radically pro-abortion administration in history,\u201d said Banks. \u201cBiden\u2019s omni will potentially send millions of dollars to Planned Parenthood, which the vast majority of Americans oppose.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a class=\"in-cell-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just two days before the federal government would have shut down, the United States House of Representatives voted on Wednesday evening to pass its $1.5 trillion spending bill.The bill includes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1368806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1368806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1368806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1368806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1368806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}