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Friday, February 09, 2018

No Shutdown: Congress Passes Two-Year Budget Deal

Update: just before 6am ET on Friday, the House joined the Senate in passing the budget deal that would fund the government through March 23, sending legislation to President Trump that would end a brief shutdown of the government that began at midnight.

The bill passed in a 240-186 vote despite opposition from most Democrats, who had sought a firmer commitment from Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) that he will bring immigration legislation to the floor for a vote that would protect immigrants who came to the United States as children from deportation. House Democrats just barely made up for the defections on the GOP side. A total of 73 Democrats voted for the legislation, while 67 Republicans voted against it.

As The Hill reports, Democrats tried to make GOP leaders sweat. They held out their votes until the final minutes, until it was clear that a majority of the GOP conference supported it. At first, Republicans were the only ones casting votes as Democrats sat largely in silence. Then the "no" votes ominously began piling up, only for enough Democrats to eventually neutralize the GOP defections.

Gamesmanship from both parties was repeatedly on display, with Democrats warning Republicans they could not count on the minority delivering votes. Republicans, for their part, repeatedly played it cool in public, offering confidence the measure would pass despite opposition from conservative Republicans who said the new spending added too much to the deficit.

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5 comments:

  1. And there you have it folks Trump caved, so how is your save and grace now??? NO different than a politician seeing how he is one... Damn I get tired of being right all of the time... but it is what happens when you actually pay attention to politics and how the gov works and their language they use... It is flat out predictable...

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  2. SO much for debt and deficit control . So, tell me again, who is continuing with out of control spending

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  3. And what would you have with Hillary. The same budget and your taxes raised - not to forget DACA. No jobs. Yes it is a little bit disappointing but you can't always get what you want. You are the same people who say nothing good or bad when the best President we ever had in decades does great things for America. You want it all. Sounds a little spoiled to me. MAGA and we will!

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  4. Wow bragging about caving/lack of control. Lots of caving/lack of fiscal control from 2008-2016 too!

    How quickly we forget HOPE and CHA-CHA-CHANGE?

    Question - Salisbury, our town/city, in better shape back in 2007 or today? Then or now?

    Yeah.

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  5. 11:23, how do you know? did you read/seen the budget and how do you know if Trump had a vote is this? Please tell. (map)

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