House passes $460 billion government funding deal, temporarily dodging shutdown (www.usatoday.com)

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The House passed the first six spending bills needed to fund the government on a long-term basis, signaling the beginning of the end of constant government shutdown scares on Capitol Hill.

The legislation easily cleared the lower chamber by a bipartisan vote of 339-85. In what has become a familiar sight for the House, far more Democrats than Republicans supported the bill, despite the GOP's majority in the lower chamber.

A chunk of House Republicans voted against the spending bill because it didn’t have many of the conservative policy wins some members wanted, such as stricter border polices.

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[-] hibsen@lemmy.world 38 points 6 months ago

See you all in six months or so when we get to do all this again.

[-] anon6789@lemmy.world 21 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Lol no need to wait that long!

The real test for Congress, however, is passing the remaining six bills, which are considered to be far more controversial than the first half. Negotiators have until March 22 to come up with a long-term deal for government funding for functions related to:

Defense

Financial Services and General Government

Homeland Security

Labor, Health and Human Services, Education

Legislative Branch

State and Foreign Operations

[-] vegeta@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Nothing is more permanent than a temporary ~~Tax~~Funding Plan

[-] CyberSeeker@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 6 months ago

This is a full funding plan, for the rest of the fiscal year, for six out of the twelve required funding bills.

[-] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 8 points 6 months ago

And the fiscal year ends in about 6 months, so it's a bit disingenuous to call it a full plan.

[-] LopensLeftArm@sh.itjust.works 10 points 6 months ago

Way to do just the bare minimum guys!

[-] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 months ago

They didn't. They only did half lol

[-] metallic_substance@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

I like your username

[-] LopensLeftArm@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago

Thanks gancho!

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