{"id":1371081,"date":"2022-03-11T11:25:54","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T16:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1371081"},"modified":"2022-03-11T11:26:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T16:26:00","slug":"senate-sends-government-funding-to-bidens-desk-after-late-night-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-sends-government-funding-to-bidens-desk-after-late-night-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Sends Government Funding To Biden\u2019s Desk After Late Night Vote"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fsenate-sends-government-funding-to-bidens-desk-after-late-night-vote%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=1371081&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><\/div>\n<p>The Senate voted to pass a $1.5 trillion government funding resolution Thursday night, following the failure of several Republican amendments, including one targeting vaccine mandates.<\/p>\n<p>The resolution, which includes nearly $14 billion in military and humanitarian <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/07\/ukraine-aid-government-funding-resolution-nancy-pelosi\/\">aid<\/a> for Ukraine, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/117th-congress\/house-bill\/2471\/actions?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22HR+2471%22%2C%22HR%22%2C%222471%22%5D%7D&#038;r=2&#038;s=8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">passed<\/a> 68-31, with only Republicans voting against it. President Joe Biden, who is traveling Friday and over the weekend, will sign the bill by Monday to avoid a government shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis bill invests in future prosperity, in our health, and reduces everyday costs for millions of Americans, such as child care, a college education, and heating and cooling costs,\u201d Democratic Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy, the chairman of the Appropriations Committee, said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/03\/10\/us\/politics\/senate-spending-bill-approved.html\">statement<\/a>, according to The New York Times.<\/p>\n<p>Three Republican floor amendments to the package failed, although GOP members did ensure that an increase in defense spending, as well as the Hyde Amendment, made it into the final bill. The failed amendments included a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenatePPG\/status\/1502105750419689476\">ban<\/a> on federal funding for vaccine mandates, a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenatePPG\/status\/1502106219653349390\">ban<\/a> on earmarks and increased natural disaster recovery funds for the state of Louisiana.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Senate is now voting on Kennedy\/Cassidy amendment #4983 (provide emergency assistance for disaster response and recovery related to Hurricanes Laura, Delta &#038; Ida &#038; for other purposes) (60-vote affirmative threshold).<\/p>\n<p>Next vote: Final passage of the Omnibus.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Senate Periodicals (@SenatePPG) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenatePPG\/status\/1502111027495944199?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 11, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The package did not include more than $15 billion in COVID-19 relief funding, after House Democrats <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/09\/house-passes-government-funding-fy2022\/\">failed<\/a> to come to an agreement on an appropriate funding procedure. An initial proposal from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi would have <a href=\"https:\/\/amp.cnn.com\/cnn\/2022\/03\/09\/politics\/democrats-reaction-spending-fight\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reallocated<\/a> money already distributed to the states, but that mechanism proved unacceptable for enough representatives to sink the provision.<\/p>\n<p>House Appropriations Committee chairwoman Rosa DeLauro introduced a bill Thursday to make up the $15.6 billion that was removed.<\/p>\n<p>The resolution also included <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/597625-lawmakers-feast-on-pork-in-omnibus\">earmarks<\/a> for the first time in over a decade. The line items, which allow lawmakers to steer funds to special projects in their districts, were previously banned by Republicans following the Tea Party wave elections. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/05\/swamp-politics-senate-republicans-earmarks\/\">(RELATED: The Swamp Strikes Back\u2014Many Republicans Will Earmark Again)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer reportedly scored 142 earmarks for New York in the omnibus bill, according to The Hill, while Alabama Sen. Richard Shelby, the top Republican on the Appropriations Committee, reportedly passed 16 earmarks steering $650 million to his home state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate voted to pass a $1.5 trillion government funding resolution Thursday night, following the failure of several Republican amendments, including one targeting vaccine mandates.The resolution, which includes nearly $14<\/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-1371081","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\/1371081","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=1371081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371081\/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=1371081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1371081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1371081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}