The effort to pass an omnibus spending bill for this fiscal year has failed. This means lower funding for the Social Security Administration for the rest of this fiscal year. The manner in which it failed -- nine Republicans reneged on promises to vote for the bill -- suggests massive problems in passing any appropriations bills or anything else in the next Congress. I fear that we are embarking upon a two year continuing resolution which will have terrible consequences for the Social Security Administration.
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Maybe if congress both R's and D's didnt pack the Bill full of complete garbage this Bill would have passed. They dont get it.
"suggests massive problems in passing any appropriations bills or anything else in the next Congress"
Unless corporate interests or the wealthy is at issue.
It wasn't just the R's. Don't forget the Dems still have 59 seats in the Senate. If all Dems had been convinced that it was a good bill it would have passed.
Haven't a number of Republican legislators said they want to cut the federal labor force by 10%?
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