Latest omnibus spends more than under Pelosi – One Senator gets 170 earmarks!

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The omnibus spending package does NOTHING to help the American people and funds higher levels of spending than under the Pelosi regime. It should have been voted down by every Republican.

However, on Wednesday, 83 House Republicans voted against a roughly $460 billion package of bills to fund large swaths of the federal government, many voting against bringing home money to the their districts. (Which will go anyway as they were out-voted.)

The House passed a package of six government funding bills Wednesday afternoon to avert a partial government shutdown before the Friday deadline. The $467.5 billion appropriations package was voted on under suspension of the rules, which required a two-thirds majority to pass. That meant, once again, Speaker Mike Johnson had to rely on Democrats’ votes to pass it — a move that landed former speaker Kevin McCarthy in hot water and contributed to his ouster last year.

The bills easily passed with a vote of 339-85 with more Democrats backing it than Republicans. The funding package now heads to the Senate, where its leaders are encouraging their colleagues to work together to pass the bills.