The Senate passed a $1.7 trillion omnibus spending package on Thursday in a 68-29 vote to prevent a potential government shutdown.
that he would back a"truly bipartisan full-year bill without poison pills" if it was ready for Senate passage by the end of the following week.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell speaks to the media during the weekly Senate Republican Leadership press conference at the U.S. Capitol on December 13, 2022, in Washington, D.C. In inset, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy participates in a weekly press conference with Republican House leaders at the U.S. Capitol on July 24, 2018, in Washington, D.C. The U.S. Senate passed a $1.
That short-term continuing resolution , which would freeze federal funding levels until next year, is exactly what some Republicans are vying for. Greene slammed McConnell last week and called on him to back the short term CR now so that Republicans will be able to use their new narrow majority in the House next year for better leverage in negotiations.
"Every Republican in the country should be demanding Mitch McConnell actually do his job as Republican leader in the Senate and stop helping [President Joe] Biden and the Democrats continue to destroy our country. Pass a CR into '23 and NO OMNIBUS!!!" Greene tweeted on December 14.
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