Dec 23, 2022
Four-thousand one-hundred fifty-five pages, and no one's read them. One-trillion seven-hundred-billion dollars, and no one has a plan to pay for it. That's what our federal government has been reduced to. By a vote of 68-29, the Senate passed the 2023 fiscal year omnibus spending bill on Thursday. Shamefully, 18 of those yea votes belonged to Republicans. It now heads to the House, which Democrats control, and it's expected to become law before members of Congress slink out of town for Christmas vacation. "Congress has passed a series of short-term funding measures since the fiscal year began on October 1 so they could manufacture a crisis in the waning days of 2022," writes political analyst Philip Klein. "This has allowed congressional leaders and their staffs to hide behind closed doors, load a freight train with their preferred government-funded goodies, get the media to describe it as a 'must-pass bill,' and dare anybody to vote against the fina