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Debate Over Congressional Spending Bill
By: John McCormack - nationalreview.com - December 20, 2022
Congressional GOP leaders Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy are at odds over the 4,155-page, $1.7 trillion year-end omnibus spending bill that was released around 1:30 a.m. on Tuesday.
McConnell announced support for the bill in Senate floor remarks later Tuesday. “The bipartisan government-funding bill that Senators Shelby and Leahy have finished negotiating does exactly the opposite of what the Biden administration first proposed,” he said. “This bill provides a substantial real-dollar increase to the defense baseline . . . and a substantial real-dollar cut to the non-defense, non-veterans baseline.”
With McConnell’s backing, the bill will very likely have enough GOP support in ...
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Source: McCarthy and McConnell at Odds over $1.7 Trillion Omnibus Spending Bill | National Review
