Thu Dec 22, 2022 – 1:40 pm EST
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) – The U.S. Senate reached an agreement this week on a $1.7 trillion omnibus bill to fund the federal government, in what many conservatives are calling a capitulation by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and other Republican leaders.
Just the News reports that the deal was reached after Democrat Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer allowed an amendment to extend Title 42, a Trump-era public health authority facilitating the quick deportation of illegal immigrants, to be voted on with just 51 votes rather than the 60 typically needed to break a filibuster.
McConnell claimed that the omnibus, despite having to meet the approval of Democrats, achieved “essentially all of our priorities,” including assistance for Ukraine’s defense against invasion by Russian dictator Vladimir Putin (an issue that has divided conservatives). Specifically, he said that the deal provides the U.S. military “the funding increase that it needs, outpacing inflation” while “non-defense, non-veterans spending will come in below the rate of inflation, for a real-dollar cut.”
McConnell: “I’m pretty proud of the fact that with a Democratic president, Democratic House, and Democratic Senate, we were able to achieve
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