BREAKING: Senate passes $1.7 trillion spending bill with help from Republicans
voted with every single Senate Democrat to pass the bill. Republican support was slightly lower than the 21 GOP votes the measure garnered earlier this week to overcome the Senate's 60-vote filibuster threshold.
Several Senate Republicans even mounted a last-minute push to block the measure in the lead-up to the final vote. Arguing that a GOP-controlled House could exact larger concessions from Biden come January, the Republicans sought to amend the bill in ways Democrats said would make it impossible to pass in the House.
The spending bill now heads to the House of Representatives, where Speaker Nancy Pelosi is expected to hold a vote before lawmakers depart for the Christmas holiday. By Thursday morning, Schumer agreed to give Lee his vote but also set up a vote on an amendment from Arizona independent Kyrsten Sinema that would have kept Title 42 in place and increased funding for immigration enforcement and processing., which required 60 votes for passage. But Sinema's language allowed moderate Democrats facing tough re-election challenges in 2024, like Sinema and Montana Sen.
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