House passes $460BILLION package to fund
six government agencies just three days
before another shutdown: Democrats help
Republicans advance six bills in the face
of conservative uprising
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Morgan Phillips
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
3/6/2024 6:53:03 PM
The House on Wednesday passed a $460 billion spending package that will fund six agencies of government, relying Democratic support to make up for the majority of Republicans who opposed it.
The bill passed 339-85, with 132 Republicans voting yes, 83 voting no, and all but two Democrats voting for it.
The package brought together funding for Agriculture, Commerce-Justice-Science, Energy-Water, Interior-Environment, Military Construction-VA and Transportation and Housing and Urban Development (HUD) under one vote.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
DVC 3/6/2024 7:00:37 PM (No. 1672099)
At first glance, a RINO stampede?
23 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
winmag 3/6/2024 7:15:45 PM (No. 1672102)
Sold us down the river again. What is the point of having an opposition party to the demonrats. They don't fight for anything.
50 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
Califedup 3/6/2024 7:41:45 PM (No. 1672117)
Another giant step by the stealth communist death democrat republicans on the road to ruin and chaos. The end result of all this betrayal is now crystal clear and the only question is when the collapse of our country occurs. Said it before and I will say it again, we will not vote our way back to freedom. Not with the republicans in Congress today. Why vote republican?
34 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
plomke 3/6/2024 7:52:14 PM (No. 1672123)
The checks from Mr.Z must have cleared.
What a bunch of useless whores we have in Congress.
Spending money we do not have on wars we do not need.
And still not closing the border or deporting the invaders.
50 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
smokincol 3/6/2024 7:58:47 PM (No. 1672129)
hmmm, demcommies helping republicans .... I don't like the sound of that but it only proves that the republicans are not capable of governing and to seek help from the other side makes them look very, very bad
18 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
hershey 3/6/2024 9:19:40 PM (No. 1672163)
All that and whatever other 'under the table' stuff they needed funding..
11 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
Gordon Mills 3/6/2024 10:17:34 PM (No. 1672180)
Johnson was going to be the hero. Pffft!
20 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 3/6/2024 10:36:42 PM (No. 1672190)
As always - - the Pubbies main reason for existence - - is to help the demonrats fund the welfare state.
It's been happening all my life - - like clockwork. You can set your watch - - on the exact moment that the Pubbies fold.
24 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
mifla 3/7/2024 4:34:59 AM (No. 1672268)
Slowing down our march over the cliff is still results in a march over the cliff.
25 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
Rinktum 3/7/2024 4:51:42 AM (No. 1672275)
Republicans never manage to surprise me yet always manage to disappoint me. Who in their right mind looks around this country and decides to fund such nonsense? We are flat broke. Will reality hit them when China comes and wants their money back? These fools actually believe we can borrow ourselves out of debt. We make nothing in this country because the elites shipped our jobs overseas. Do you think that might have had a detrimental effect on our tax base? We are dependent on our enemies for essentials and yet the ignorant class, aka, political class votes to fund a government hostile to its own people and then expect us to cheer them on?! Clearly, the inmates are running the asylum.
26 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
5 handicap 3/7/2024 5:44:59 AM (No. 1672302)
ALAS...I had had such high hopes for Speaker Johnson... he most assuredly needs to go back and re read the 20th chapter of Exodus, especially the part about Bearing False Witness.
13 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
anniebc 3/7/2024 6:20:16 AM (No. 1672325)
When does the dragging commence?
5 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
Timber Queen 3/7/2024 6:20:37 AM (No. 1672326)
Remember the old days of Appropriation Hearings when the Dems and Repubs actually haggled over the price of programs? At least back then they gave the appearance of actually budgeting and caring how they spent our tax dollars. But hey, they've been passing "continuing resolutions" of the 2008 budget for 16 years, so I bet less than half the members even know how passing a real budget is even done. We're the Wiemar Republic of the digital age.
24 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
PostAway 3/7/2024 6:48:30 AM (No. 1672332)
Political conservatives have effectively no representation in DC. Although we pay a hearty chunk, perhaps a majority, of taxes we seem to have no say in how our money is spent. And yet every 4/15 there we are at the post office sending our hard earned money to those who are plotting to slit our throats and those of our descendants, too. Stop the madness…..for the children. Actually, I’m not even kidding. It might actually help our children.
6 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
BarryNo 3/7/2024 7:12:18 AM (No. 1672353)
Keep track of these people. Primaries them. If necessary, consider entering the race. This is why the Globalist Elites think they can walk over us. We mill around and complain, but don't actually DO anything.
11 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
janjan 3/7/2024 8:24:08 AM (No. 1672415)
There is no good answer to this. The Democrats always move in lockstep and Republicans don’t. I don’t care if they shut the government down. They can shut it down permanently. But there is a lot of dependence on these agencies and Johnson was going to pay the price no matter what he did.
3 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
TCloud 3/7/2024 8:36:46 AM (No. 1672418)
There goes the wallet!
4 people like this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 3/7/2024 8:59:49 AM (No. 1672436)
I never wonder how Steve Cohen (D) TN will vote; it is against anything a conservative would want. But here is a helpful hint for the other 49 states: and if you already have it in your arsenal, forgive the redundancy: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes
4 people like this.
Reply 19 - Posted by:
Safari Man 3/7/2024 9:24:38 AM (No. 1672453)
$460 billion... that should last through the end of March at the rate they are spending (spend == payola to dimocrats)
5 people like this.
Reply 20 - Posted by:
Strike3 3/7/2024 9:31:10 AM (No. 1672463)
No different than Communism. It's all a big game but the end result is always spending tons of money that we do not have. It is this unsustainable waste that is going to kill the country before any enemy does. If we ran a company or even a household like this we would all be homeless.
5 people like this.
Reply 21 - Posted by:
Zigrid 3/7/2024 10:16:59 AM (No. 1672507)
I'm sure the speaker did what he thought was best in this critical time...I'm willing to give him the benefit of doubt...untill I learn more....
5 people like this.
Reply 22 - Posted by:
stablemoney 3/7/2024 10:42:06 AM (No. 1672525)
Nothing has changed with Johnson. We still get last minute omnibus funding nobody has read. And we still have not seen the J6 tapes. Johnson is a Bill Barr copy that promises end of next quarter, next year, always sometime in the future, which never gets here.
3 people like this.
Reply 23 - Posted by:
red1066 3/7/2024 12:03:36 PM (No. 1672572)
Anyone else see the problem with only six government agencies needing 460 billion to operate?
4 people like this.
Reply 24 - Posted by:
Hermit_Crab 3/7/2024 2:47:18 PM (No. 1672703)
As the Cartels say:
Plata O Plomo?
Although with our Congress you could add "Or Porno... Released with you as the star"
2 people like this.
Reply 25 - Posted by:
danu 3/7/2024 5:00:20 PM (No. 1672820)
vacate the chair
1 person likes this.
Reply 26 - Posted by:
Nimby 3/7/2024 10:20:39 PM (No. 1672985)
UNIPARTY
1 person likes this.
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