Senate passes $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill
>The Senate on Thursday passed a massive $1.7 billion omnibus spending bill, sending the bill House for a hasty vote before Friday midnight to avert a partial government shutdown.>The bill includes at least $44 billion in additional money to help Ukraine thwart Russia's invasion and was thrown into peril overnight by a GOP efforts to force a vote on an amendment to the measure to extend a Trump-era effort to stop immigration amid the pandemic by using a decades-old law known as Title 42.>The one-year funding measure passed by a 68-29 vote in the Senate, according to the Associated Press and is expected to pass the Democrat-led House.https://justthenews.com/government/congress/senate-passes-17-trillion-omnibus-spending-billKeep paying taxes
