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Home Front: Politix
Five days to avoid a shutdown: Congress goes to battle to keep government running with package that includes $12B for Ukraine, winter heating bill help and Manchin's energy bill Dems think will lead to MORE drilling
2022-09-26
  • While a final funding bill is still being drawn up, the Senate is set to vote in a procedural move on a 'shell' of the bill on Tuesday

  • Both sides are under pressure to pass a temporary bill to fund the government at its current levels until after the midterms

  • Lawmakers must first work through a stalemate on a permitting deal brokered between Schumer and Manchin

  • Another $12 billion is looking to be tacked on in Ukraine funding, bringing the total amount of aid since the start of the war up to about $60 million
    • I think that's B as in Billion
  • Also expected in the stopgap funding bill is funding to aid with the Jackson water crisis and money for heating bills, aid to resettle Afghan refugees
Posted by:Skidmark

#1  Should use that 18B to buy up natural gas and sell it to Europe at a profit so they can survive the winter.
Posted by: ruprecht   2022-09-26 17:10  

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