The bill is a mammoth 1,012 pages long, which was plopped down in the House in the middle of the night on March 22nd, which means no one would have had time to read what’s all in there. The package itself is worth $1.2 trillion.
The bill, H.R. 2882, can be read here.
The bill was passed expediently with a vote of 286 to 134, with 101 Republicans agreeing to what is basically in essence a Democrat package. Check the list to see how your representatives voted. Congress has now left for a two-week recess.
And then this morning the Senate promptly voted 72-24 (two absentees) as to not prolong the shutdown. Again, check the rollcall to see how the Senators voted.
Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) scorched the bill and accused any GOP member voting for this as a hypocrite. “Any of my Republican colleagues you want to spend this year campaigning against open borders – it’s a laugh,” he said, “Because today, if you vote for this abomination of a bill, you will be voting to fund it. You will be voting to fund the very policies that you will campaign against.”
Because the bill was rushed through so fast it is still very much unknown all that is contained in it. What we do know is it increases defense appropriations by 3%, but keeps overall domestic spending as is. The bill makes up approximately 70% of discretionary government spending.
The Senate Appropriations Committee highlighted what they say are the top things in the $1.2 trillion funding package:
- Lowers child care costs for families and strengthens Head Start with a new $1 billion investment to help families in every zip code afford child care and help ensure Head Start can continue serving hundreds of thousands of kids each year.
- Protects workers’ rights and helps ensure they get the paychecks they have earned by protecting funding for essential worker protection agencies and the National Labor Relations Board.
- Invests in students at every stage of their education and sustains essential investments in our nation’s public schools by delivering resources for our public K-12 schools, Pell Grants, and more—and rejecting devastating cuts that would have forced teachers out of our nation’s K-12 classrooms.
- Keeps our country safe and supports our servicemembers and military families with essential investments in our national defense and important additional support for those who serve our country in uniform.
- Builds on our historic economic recovery and supports small businesses.
- Supports people’s health, strengthens the health care workforce, and guards against public health threats, rejecting dangerous cuts and sustaining all manner of investments in patients’ health.
- Propels cutting-edge biomedical research to discover and create new treatments and cures that save lives and give people more time with their loved ones.
- Invests in mental health care and research and strengthens the 988 lifeline—sustaining and building upon key investments made in recent years.
- Protects consumers and holds fraudsters and rich tax cheats accountable to help even the playing field and keep growing our economy from the middle out.
- Combats the flow of fentanyl, strengthens our detection and enforcement capabilities, and invests in substance use disorder treatment and prevention to address the opioid crisis that continues to devastate communities.
- Delivers critical resources to help meet operational needs at our southern border.
- Maintains America’s global leadership and upholds our commitments to our allies and partners to promote our own national security and strengthen our competitiveness.
- Supports our Afghan allies by authorizing an additional 12,000 Special Immigrant Visas (SIVs) for Afghans who assisted the US government during the war in Afghanistan.
- Increases base funding for humanitarian assistance to support the United States’ efforts to provide emergency food, shelter, water, and basic services to populations caught in conflict and crises across the globe.
One of the things buried in the text includes $850,000 for “LGBTQ Senior Housing:”
It includes things such as
- $850k for a gay senior home
- $15 million to pay for Egyptian’s college tuitions
- $400k for a gay activist group to teach elementary kids about being trans
- $500k for a DEI zoo
- $400k for a group to gives clothes to teens to help them hide their gender – which includes providing 13-year-old children chest binders, tuck equipment, and “counseling” without parental consent
The bill, however, has caused a motion to be filed to remove Speaker Mike Johnson from his post, for his routine capitulation to Democrat demands since replacing the former Speaker Kevin McCarthy for the same reasons just a handful of months ago.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.
Proverbs 29:2
Ah yes, you’re vote really matters, doesn’t it?
Just the other day I wrote a piece titled “We Have Selections, Not Elections. It’s All Just Theater, Dividing Us Over Premade Decisions” – and this omnibus only reaffirms that point. Most of the clowns in my state of Indiana voted in favor of this; but I guess I’m not a good “patriot” if I don’t get in line and “vote for the lesser of two evils” again.
The national debt has already been insanely unsustainable forever now, and Americans from top-down don’t care and think we can continue to run debts and deficits to infinity. News flash: no, you can’t.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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Lovely. NOT!
“We’re a strong powerful nation with one of the richest economies in the world” the patriotic nitwits would say and they’ll tell you “if you speak against this, you’re no American, we’re a “God-fearing” nation and God will see America through” yeah, keep telling yourself that.
Then suddenly, the stock market crashes! Millions of businesses, colleges and universities, fast food places, bars and nightclubs, restaurants, malls, church buildings and even schools all go kaput!
The next step: WAR