Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is scheduled to speak to Congress and President Joe Biden on Wednesday and claim the $45 billion worth of aid designated for Ukraine in the $1.7 trillion omnibus bill is not enough support.
The 4,155-page, $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill unveiled by Democrats in the middle of the night on Tuesday includes more than $11 million for LGBT-themed projects, the Washington Stand first reported.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Ingraham Angle,” House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said that the omnibus spending bill is being passed through a process where no one can read it and without any committee process,
On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Ingraham Angle,” House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) stated that the FBI shouldn’t be blindly funded given the behavior revealed in the Twitter files and the agency’s budget shouldn’t increase until
On Tuesday’s “CNN Newsroom,” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) stated that the omnibus spending bill does have “some big emergency numbers” but “much of” those large emergency funds are going overseas and he doesn’t expect the bill to have “any extraordinary
CNN anchor Jake Tapper said Tuesday on his show “The Lead” that Senate Republicans were backing the bipartisan omnibus spending package to avoid dealing with House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and “his gang of flying monkeys.”
On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Kudlow,” Sen. Mike Braun (R-IN) stated that the omnibus bill is an example of the “unholy alliance” where Republicans agree to increases in domestic spending for boosted defense spending and argued that
On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) stated that while the smaller increase in non-defense spending in the omnibus is difficult to take, getting the bill passed means, “for the next two years, we have
Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-IA) told Breitbart News in an exclusive statement on Tuesday that the $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill undermines border enforcement and misses a crucial opportunity to secure the border.
The Senate on Tuesday advanced the $1.7 trillion, 4,155-page omnibus spending bill.
The $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill creates a “Ukrainian Independence Park” in the heart of Washington, DC.
An updated version of a horse racing law, which was recently declared unconstitutional, has been tucked into the 4,155-page omnibus bill.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is expected to visit Congress on Wednesday, according to a report released on Tuesday.
The massive $1.7 trillion omnibus bill contains the word “salmon” or “salmonid” four dozen times, Rep. Dan Bishop (R-NC) said as he highlighted some of the most egregious aspects of the monstrous spending bill.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said during a press conference on Tuesday that the “number one priority” for Republicans is to provide more aid to Ukraine.
The $1.7 trillion omnibus bill has $575 million for “family planning” or “reproductive health,” to be used at least in part where lawmakers say population growth “threatens biodiversity.”
Outgoing Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK), the ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, has half a billion dollars worth of earmarks in the $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bills.
Outgoing Senate Appropriations Committee Vice Chair Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) slipped $656 million worth of earmarks into the $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill.
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) is among Republicans speaking out against the recently released omnibus spending bill, citing the $1.7 trillion price tag as well as the $45 billion allotted for Ukraine as Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) warns that “no Republican should cave into this political warfare.”
Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) is among House Republicans rejecting the $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill, concluding that Americans are sick of bad deals and promising to stand against the measure, as well as against senators who support it.
Congressional appropriators dropped the $1.7 trillion, 4,155-page omnibus spending bill at 1:30 A.M. ET Tuesday, giving lawmakers days to read it before the government shuts down Friday.
The omnibus spending bill will include the Electoral Count Reform and Presidential Transition Improvement Act, a bill that was drafted in the wake of the January 6 Capitol Riots to amend the Electoral Count Act of 1887 and change the process for members of Congress to object to the certification of a presidential election, the Washington Post reported on Monday.
House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) urged the Senate to avoid passing an omnibus bill funding the government for the next year and pointed out that Republicans were able to lift the ban on oil exports under the Obama administration and lift the military vaccine mandate by using the funding leverage that would be eliminated with an omnibus.
On Monday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “The Record,” House Oversight Committee Ranking Member Rep. James Comer (R-KY) stated that if an omnibus bill funding the government for the next year passes, the FBI will “continue to be unaccountable” for the
Senate Democrat disagreements over the future headquarters of the FBI has delayed the release of the $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill.
On Friday’s edition of PBS’ “Washington Week,” New York Times Chief Washington Correspondent Carl Hulse stated that he thinks an omnibus bill will be passed due to “the oldest reason in the books, it’s pork.” He also stated that the top two
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that while he thinks it’s a good thing that a government shutdown is likely to be avoided, the government has just been passing “emergency spending bills that seem to
On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Evening Edit,” Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) criticized Senate Republicans for pushing an omnibus spending package and stated that doing so denies the House GOP the funding leverage to push border security provisions. Donalds particularly criticized the lead Republican negotiator in the Senate, Senate Appropriations Committee Vice Chairman Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL), for “selling everybody out” “to take all this money out the door and cut a deal with the worst president in our history” and extend the Biden agenda.
House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) has whipped House members against voting for a short term government funding bill that Democrats and some establishment Republicans want to pass before a potential shutdown on Friday.
There are over 7,500 earmarks totaling $16 billion lawmakers are trying to negotiate to be in a year-long “omnibus” spending bill that would expire at the end of the current fiscal year — September 2023.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) reacted to the omnibus framework by pointing out that the two leaders on the Senate Appropriations Committee, Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), and Vice
Key lawmakers on Tuesday announced that they had struck a deal on the framework for funding the government through the end of the current fiscal year, with government funding set to run out on Friday.
Congressional leaders are steadily moving towards a potential government funding deal as the government soon faces the prospect of a government shutdown.
Rep. Ben Cline (R-VA), a member of the House Appropriations Committee, told Breitbart News in an exclusive statement that the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA) should not be considered in a must-pass spending bill.
House Majority Whip-elect Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) will oppose any efforts to include the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA) in the end-of-year spending bill, Breitbart News has learned.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “All In,” Senate Majority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said Democrats want to pass an omnibus spending bill to cover government spending for the whole next year so that way, they can “avoid the problem”
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview on Wednesday that many Republicans prefer a continuing resolution (CR) over an omnibus spending bill to prevent more runaway spending and rampant inflation.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said that congressional leadership is in “widespread agreement” that the lame-duck session of Congress should pass an omnibus spending bill.
Senate conservatives charged in a letter to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) that Congress should not pass a large omnibus bill until Republicans officially take back the House.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is still fuming over the rank-and-file Democrat opposition, which forced her to ax the coronavirus aid in the spending bill last week.
