The White House has said President Obama would sign the package, which will remove the threat of a government shutdown until September 30, about a month before the 2016 elections.
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“This legislation helps our economy, helps our national security, and strikes more blows to a partisan health law that hurts the Middle Class”, Senate Majority Leader Sen.
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“A rotten process yields a rotten result, and this 2,000-page, trillion-dollar bill is rotten to its core, resulting from secret, backroom negotiations and getting dumped in the dead of the night on Americans with barely two days before the vote”. Democrats call it a giveaway to oil companies, and in exchange they negotiated extensions of environmental measures including solar and wind energy tax credits.
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Tax breaks worth $680 billion over 10 years also are part of the bipartisan fiscal deal. And they achieved a long-standing GOP goal of making permanent business-friendly tax breaks that could make it politically easier to pass a broader overhaul of the tax code in the coming years.
Over the past few years, the budget has become a place of bitter fighting between Democrats and Republicans, becoming a tool to threaten a government shutdown if certain items are not included or excluded.
GOP presidential aspirants Ted Cruz of Texas and Rand Paul of Kentucky voted against the bill, while longshot Lindsey Graham of SC supported it.
Sen. Angus King. I-Maine, also voted in favor of the bill, but had reservations about its costs and the manner in which the bill was passed.
“It is going to bust the deficit”.
“Like many shoppers out there, they put it all on the credit card, except that it’s your credit card”, Doggett said. Multiple Democrats say the GOP has roughly only 100 votes for the spending deal, and will still need to get the vast majority of House Democrats on board to get to the 218 needed.
The trillion dollar budget deal has been passed with more Democrats supporting it than republicans. Ryan has emphasized this week that the spending bill is the product of a process he inherited from Boehner and that he’ll pursue a different strategy next year.
“They wanted big oil so much that they gave away the store”, Pelosi said. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) missed the vote. Scientists tell us that we must act immediately to combat climate change, but this bill will lift the crude oil export ban and encourage the burning of more fossil fuels.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi had said she was concerned about the tax bill because of “special interest tax breaks”.
The repeal of the decades-old crude oil export ban was considered a major win for Republicans, who at the same time, did not score certain provisions that conservatives had demanded.
It would scale back a program that allows visa-free entry to the US for citizens of about three dozen countries, including much of Europe. Now people who’ve traveled to Iran, Iraq, Sudan and Syria in the last five years will face higher scrutiny if they wish to enter the U.S.
The measure would benefit industries including health care, broadcasting and meat processing, increase funding for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and boost money for child hunger programs. Democrats were particularly angry that Republicans excluded aid for debt-ridden Puerto Rico.
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Not everyone was on board. Then, Congress would adjourn until January.
