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WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress cleared a $1.1 trillion spending bill for President Barack Obama's signature late Saturday night after a day of Senate intrigue capped by a failed, largely symbolic Republican challenge to the administration's new immigration policy.
The vote was 56-40 in favor of the measure, which funds nearly the entire government through the Sept. 30 end of the fiscal year. It also charts a new course for selected shaky pension plans covering more than 1 million retirees, including the possibility of benefit cuts.
While the legislation assures funding for nearly the entire government until next fall, it made an exception of the Department of Homeland Security. Money for the agency will run out on Feb. 27, when Republicans intend to try and force the president to roll back an immigration policy that removes the threat of deportation from millions of immigrants living in the United States illegally.
originally posted by: CharlieSpeirs
Where the hell is this trillion coming from?
And why the hell is Homeland Security the sacrifice?
That sounds a little risky.
Where the hell is this trillion coming from?
And why the hell is Homeland Security the sacrifice?
The same place all our money comes from the Federal Reserve.
To make it easier for America to be attacked that way they can cry it was Obama's fault. I may not like that agency but it is stupid to cut money for security here at home.
In other words, the bill makes it possible for the administration to continue waging war around the world and building up the apparatus for a police state at home.
Attached to the funding bill are hundreds of policy measures, many of them added at the last minute with no public discussion and, in many cases, without most congressmen or senators even being aware of what was being proposed before they rubber-stamped the bill. These include, most notoriously, the repeal of a major section of the Dodd-Frank legislation that sought to place some restrictions on the speculative activities of the banks following the 2008 financial crash.
used for six years to promote private charter schools and attacks on teachers in public schools. Republicans attacked the program as an effort to impose federal standards in education.
That sounds more likely than just taxes to be honest.
In a time where the media is perpetuating a race war and holy war, it's a bit of a dangerous tactic to be miserly with the Department that's in charge of stopping such bullsh*t from occuring.
originally posted by: Kali74
AP
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress cleared a $1.1 trillion spending bill for President Barack Obama's signature late Saturday night after a day of Senate intrigue capped by a failed, largely symbolic Republican challenge to the administration's new immigration policy.
The vote was 56-40 in favor of the measure, which funds nearly the entire government through the Sept. 30 end of the fiscal year. It also charts a new course for selected shaky pension plans covering more than 1 million retirees, including the possibility of benefit cuts.
Well, there goes the little bit of economic recovery we had.