Omnibus Spending Bill

Half of the likely votes in the United States said they disapprove of the Democrat-led $1.7 trillion, 4,155-page omnibus spending bill that was rammed through Congress last month to fund the government. At the same time, most agree it is a “disaster” for America.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) declared $45 billion in aid to Ukraine “morally right” on Christmas Eve. 

Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) discusses the passage of the omnibus spending bill, why more Americans are dying at a younger age, and the fentanyl epidemic.

Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) is offering an amendment to the 4,155-page, $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill full of handouts on Friday that would defund the U.S. Department of Defense’s  Office for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

The omnibus spending bill includes $286 million in Title X funding for “voluntary family planning projects.”

The “American people don’t want” the 2023 Omnibus Appropriations bill, and the process of its release was an “abomination,” according to Sen. Rand Paul

The 4,155-page, $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill unveiled by Democrats in the middle of the night on Tuesday includes more than $11 million for LGBT-themed projects, the Washington Stand first reported.

A year-end, $1.7 trillion spending package will transfer some $2.4 billion in American taxpayer money to resettle more Ukrainians across the United States. 

A year-end federal government spending bill, totalling $1.7 trillion, funds more migration from Afghanistan even as vetting issues have plagued President Joe Biden’s administration and worried investigators. 

Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) is among House Republicans rejecting the $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill, concluding that Americans are sick of bad deals and promising to stand against the measure, as well as against senators who support it.

The Senate’s EAGLE Act is riddled with holes “any idiot could drive a truck through,” according to Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), who warned ahead of a key House vote on the bill of the threats it poses to Americans by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

There are over 7,500 earmarks totaling $16 billion lawmakers are trying to negotiate to be in a year-long “omnibus” spending bill that would expire at the end of the current fiscal year — September 2023.

Despite discrediting themselves in an ultimately futile effort to attach the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA), a massive handout for big media companies, to the annual defense funding bill, media lobbyists are now trying to slip the controversial bill into a potential omnibus package.

Rep. Barry Moore is leading a group of nearly a dozen House Republican lawmakers in vowing to vote against a new government spending package unless President Joe Biden takes steps to improve southern border security.

Five times Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) has broken ranks with Republicans and aided Democrats by voting with Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) anti-America First agenda in term 2021-2022.

House Democrats’ disagreements over the $1.5 trillion omnibus spending bill led to a delayed vote on Wednesday, which, in turn, upended the Democrats’ long-awaited pre-midterm retreat plans.

The $1.5 trillion omnibus spending bill contains a provision that would expand diversity, equality, and inclusion at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

Conservatives have rallied against the $1.5 trillion omnibus spending bill, believing it spends too much while Americans suffer from inflation, and contains many leftist carveouts. 

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) announced that a deal for “COVID-19 relief” valued at $900 billion was reached by congressional leadership.

Former “Never Trump” Koch brothers executive Marc Short, once President Trump’s White House Legislative Affairs Director, is now rejoining the administration as Vice President Mike Pence’s Chief of Staff after a brief stint as a CNN commentator.

A Republican-Democrat offer to President Trump of about $1.3 billion to construct a border wall at the United States-Mexico border mimics past deals in restrictions it is set to place on the White House while offering less funding overall.

Several months into the Trump administration, I started running a daily “Border Wall Construction Update” on Twitter, announcing how many miles of the wall had been completed that day and how many miles since the inauguration. It was always the same numbers: 0 and 0, respectively. 

President Trump is pushing the Republican-controlled Congress to approve only a fifth of the money needed to build his $25 billion border wall, all of which is currently tied to a slew of open borders provisions.

Rep. Dave Brat (R-VA) says the more than $850 billion funding package that increases military spending is “good for the swamp” while failing to fund President Trump’s key campaign promise: A border wall on the United States-Mexico border. 

In an interview published Friday, President Trump revealed he is mulling plans to use the military to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.

A majority of Americans and swing voters in battleground districts across the United States say they support President Trump’s most central campaign promise of building a border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border to end illegal immigration.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Friday that he will cancel the August recess because he will not let the Democrats obstruct the president’s agenda.

The White House is gearing up for a big fight this summer with the Democratic party’s open borders lobby, says Stephen Miller, senior adviser to President Donald Trump.

Members of the “migrant caravan” camping near the U.S. border with Mexico may be impacted by Congressional action taken earlier this year to limit detention bed capacity in immigration processing centers.

House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) has announced that he will retire from Congress at the end of his term, leaving the door open for an economic nationalist Republican to take over as Speaker.

Paul Ryan’s tenure as Speaker has been mired in failure to repeal Obamacare, fund a southern border wall, and pass pro-American immigration legislation.

Dr. Mark Harris, the pro-Trump challenger running in the Republican primary in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District, blasted incumbent Rep. Bob Pittenger (R-NC-09) for his vote in favor of the Omnibus spending bill in an interview on Sirius XM’s Breitbart News Sunday.