By Free Republic | Created at 2024-12-21 23:37:15 | Updated at 2024-12-24 01:26:46
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Senate passes budget bill early Saturday, heading off government shutdown
Maryland Matters ^ | December 21, 2024 | Jennifer Shutt
Posted on 12/21/2024 3:27:14 PM PST by marktwain
The House passed the bill Friday evening following a 366-34 vote with one Democrat voting “present.” The Senate voted 85-11 shortly after midnight Saturday. President Joe Biden signed the bill Saturday morning.
The legislation did not include any language either raising or suspending the debt limit, rejecting a demand by Trump that it be addressed. Congress and Trump will have to deal with that next year when they control the House, Senate and the White House.
The 118-page bill will extend programs in the five-year farm bill through September, giving the House and Senate more time to broker a deal, even though they are already more than a year late.
The package would not block members of Congress from their first cost-of-living salary adjustment since January 2009, boosting lawmakers’ pay next year from $174,000 to a maximum of $180,600.
It does not include a provision considered earlier this week that would have allowed the year-round sale of E15 blended gasoline nationwide in what would have been a win for corn growers and biofuels.
The White House announced during the House vote that Biden supports the legislation.
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TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bill; budget; government; shutdown
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It appears this was a significant win for President Trump and his team. It shows Speaker Johnson to be on Team Trump and capable of the actions required.
Changed from a 1500 page monstrosity designed to "Trump proof" the deep state to a 118 page bill that extends two months into the Trump presidency. The two months allow President Trump to get his team in place before the next set of negotiations.
1 posted on 12/21/2024 3:27:14 PM PST by marktwain
To: marktwain
It appears this was a significant win for President Trump and his team. It shows Speaker Johnson to be on Team Trump and capable of the actions required.
It was a big win for the president-elect.
Speaker Johnson forgot there was an election and green-lighted the DC business-as-usual 1600-page bill. It was fun watching the Trump team take turns slapping him around.
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