After weeks of the Schumer Shutdown, the government closure triggered by Democrat demands Congress raid American taxpayers’ wallets for a trillion dollars for their special projects, and weeks more of opposition to an orderly progression for spending bills, the House on Thursday adopted the last four spending bills that are needed currently.
It aims the Congress back toward a regular order for spending bills, and an avoidance of the emergency and back-dated spending schemes that have become so popular among Democrats.
The Washington Examiner reported the House now has passed all 12 needed government funding bills, and the Senate now has a deadline eight days from now to approve the last few it has yet to addressed.
The House vote was 220-207 to pass the Department of Homeland Security appropriations bill and 341-88 for three others for Defense, Labor, Health and Human Services, Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development. All had bipartisan support.
The bills provide, the report said, $839.2 billion for Defense, $221 billion for Labor and HHS, $102.495 billion for Transportation and HUD, and $64.4 billion for DHS.
Senators still have six bills to address.
The main controversy at hand was the DHS spending as the department oversees Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and Democrats have demanded vast new limits on agents so that the nation’s immigration laws would be ignored.
The current flashpoint is Minnesota, where agitators have repeatedly obstructed federal agents and even invaded a church’s worship service and rioted over the weekend.
The report noted the compromise that was reached: “Democrats secured a $115 million funding reduction for ICE operations. GOP appropriators also agreed to reduce the number of detention beds in migrant holding facilities by 5,500 and earmark $20 million to equip ICE officers with body cameras.”
