House Passes $1.5 Trillion Government Funding Bill
Summary from the AllSides News Team
The House of Representatives passed a bipartisan deal Wednesday to fund the government through September and avoid Friday’s shutdown deadline.
The measure will provide about $1.5 trillion in overall spending, including $13.6 billion to aid Ukraine and a $42 billion increase in defense spending. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Wednesday afternoon that $15.6 billion in COVID-19 aid had been pulled from the bill; Republicans had insisted on drawing the pandemic funding from other programs, and some Democrats said the offsets would hurt their states. The House passed the measure in two pieces: military and homeland security spending passed 361-69, and the domestic spending passed 260-171.
Coverage was widespread across the spectrum, although coverage of Ukraine continued to dominate homepages. Some coverage across the spectrum focused on the Ukraine aid funding; the Washington Examiner (Lean Right) published an editorial criticizing Democrats for purportedly insisting on “tying funding for Ukraine to a controversial omnibus spending bill.”
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