{"id":1784328,"date":"2022-12-22T14:48:34","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T19:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1784328"},"modified":"2022-12-22T17:52:34","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T22:52:34","slug":"senate-passes-monster-spending-package-with-backing-from-at-least-18-republicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-passes-monster-spending-package-with-backing-from-at-least-18-republicans\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Passes Monster Spending Package With Backing From At Least 18 Republicans"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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-passes-monster-spending-package-with-backing-from-at-least-18-republicans%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=1784328&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--><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/u-s-senate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate<\/a> passed a $1.7 trillion spending package on Thursday on a 68-29 vote, with at least 18 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/republican-party\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Republicans<\/a> joining <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/democratic-party\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Democrats<\/a> to push the massive omnibus over the line.<\/p>\n<p>Congressional leaders are rushing to get the bill through Congress and to President Joe Biden\u2019s desk before the federal government hits its Friday deadline and runs out of funding. Congress passed a stopgap funding measure, known as a continuing resolution, last week to fund the government up until the day before Christmas Eve.<\/p>\n<p>Senior lawmakers unveiled the text of the 4,155-page omnibus bill in the early morning hours on Tuesday. The Senate voted 70-25 on Tuesday to move the bill through a procedural vote to begin debate, easily clearing the 60-vote threshold. Only 51 votes were required to pass the bill.<\/p>\n<p>The spending package has faced outspoken opposition from a group of conservatives in the Senate, as well as public criticism from House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, a leading contender to be the next House speaker.<\/p>\n<p>The omnibus\u2019 Republican critics have said that Congress should continue to pass stopgap spending measures until the Republican majority is seated in the House next year, giving the GOP a stronger position from which to barter with the administration and Democrats over spending priorities.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) has been one of the loudest critics of the omnibus in the upper chamber. On Tuesday, he gave a Senate floor speech blasting the spending package and Congressional leaders who were pushing it through, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis bill before us is legislative barbarism. This is an act of extortion being leveraged on the United States Senate right before Christmas,\u201d Lee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UK0IOHzbVoI&amp;t=1s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>. \u201cThis bill, in all 4,155 pages of its glory \u2013 or infamy \u2013 was negotiated in secret by four or five members of Congress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey wrote it utterly in secret with the design of making an artificial emergency, threatening a shutdown right before Christmas,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>McConnell worked alongside Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to push the bill through the Senate. McConnell claimed the omnibus was a necessary investment in the U.S. military. \u201cThe bipartisan government funding bill before this body is imperfect but strong. It will make huge new investments in our Armed Forces while cutting non-defense, non-veterans baseline spending in real dollars,\u201d he said in a Wednesday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcconnell.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm\/pressreleases?ID=6700DFCF-C103-4675-A940-5146E4DE1027\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The bill allocates $858 billion to military spending, $45 billion more than Biden requested. It has another $772.5 billion in nondefense discretionary spending, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/senate-tries-to-get-omnibus-spending-bill-over-finish-line-11671656366\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The $1.7 trillion bill is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/pork-parks-and-woke-all-the-fun-features-in-1-7-trillion-omnibus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">loaded<\/a> with earmarks, carveouts, and favors for numerous lawmakers. The bill also contains provisions such as $410 million in funding for border security for the countries of Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Tunisia, and Oman. That provision was pointed out by Rep. Dan Bishop (R-NC) as an example of questionable spending.<\/p>\n<p>The bill also contains $1.2 million for \u201cLGBTQIA+ Pride Centers,\u201d $477,000 for the Equity Institute in Rhode Island \u201cto indoctrinate teachers with \u2018antiracism virtual labs,\u2019\u201d and $3 million for the American LGBTQ+ Museum, according to The Heritage Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate passed a $1.7 trillion spending package Thursday on a 68-29 vote, with at least 18 Republicans joining Democrats to push the massive omnibus over the line. 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