1547 Page Omnibus Released

Will they have time to read it before voting on this latest monstrosity?

Wouldn't it be better to have 15 different spending bills of one hundred pages?

Boebert and Rand Paul are voting against this pork pill. Shut down the government at Christmas!
Renegotiate a better deal after Trump's inauguration.

Congress is also asking for a 40% raise. Think that will be popular with the general public?

Scuttlebutt from the Hill is that the CR is dead and Johnson is scrambling to cobble another one together before the deadline.

I agree Fred - let the partial shutdown happen, close out this session of Congress and wait for the new Congress that starts on January 3, 2025 to take the matter up. It's not like any of the federal workers who would be getting extra time off around the holidays are going to lose any income. Every time Congress has "ended the government shutdown", which is only partial anyway, it has included language that pays all of those federal workers for the days they couldn't work as a result of Congress failing to perform its primary function of passing a budget for the federal government in a timely manner.

Personally, I'd like to see an amendment to the Constitution which says that any budget before Congress not passed by the start of the new fiscal year will require a minimum of 3/5ths of both Houses to be passed if such action occurs after September 30th and before December 31st, and 2/3rd of both houses if submitted after December 31st.

On that note, I'd like to see an amendment that says a budget with a deficit requires a minimum of 3/5ths if the deficit is less than 1% of GDP, 2/3rds if between 1% and 2%, and 3/4ths if over 2%. Again, make it more difficult to pass a budget with a deficit attached. If deficit spending is deemed crucial, Congress should have no problems securing the necessary votes to pass the budget with the required increased majorities. And, once you get to 2/3rds approval necessary, you have also passed a "veto proof" budget out of Congress so any veto from the president would be for appearance sake only, so they could say, "I vetoed that budget" when the next election rolled around.

This CR would also fund a 3 billion dollar new covered stadium for the Commanders and concerts with Taylor Swift.

Your tax dollars buying a new entertainment venue for politicians.

So glad this is being exposed this time.

Close DC for the Holidays! Let most federal employees have a few weeks off. Less red tape being created. Fewer fines and harassment of consumers and businesses!

Looks like the Democrats, with the help of 37 Republicans, defeated the "Plan B" offered by Johnson to avoid a partial shutdown.

I get why the Democrats want to keep the debt ceiling talks off the agenda since it will give them a lot of leverage to derail the incoming administrations priorities next year, but what I can't figure out is why 37 Republicans would help them do it . . .

37 Republicans like Crenshaw want their 40% raises?