NYtimes News Alert:
The House on Wednesday voted overwhelmingly, 359-67, to approve a $1.1 trillion spending bill for the current fiscal year, shrugging off the angry threats of Tea Party activists and conservative groups whose power has ebbed as Congress has moved toward fiscal cooperation.
The legislation, 1,582 pages in length and unveiled only two nights ago, embodies precisely what many House Republicans have railed against since the Tea Party movement began, a massive bill dropped in the cover of darkness and voted on before lawmakers could possibly have read it.
The conservative political action committee Club For Growth denounced it and said a vote for it would hurt any lawmaker’s conservative scorecard. Heritage Action, the political arm of the Heritage Foundation, castigated it as a profligate budget buster that is returning Washington to its free-spending ways.
So let’s see who is fighting this spending bill. It looks like Congress is tired of dealing with obstructionists and people who want to shut down this country for their own purposes.
Will the Senate pass their own version of this spending bill? In all probability.
17 percent of that is defense. That’s too much. Spending that kind of money does not make us more secure.
@Starryflights
That is quite an assertion.
I’m sure that you’ll break down what the 17% covers and what should be deleted because we don’t need it.