The U.S. Congress on Tuesday presented a 4,100-page long omnibus spending bill and it has become controversial.
The year-end bill featured the sum of 1.7 trillion US Dollars. The federal government is reportedly about to run out the funding.
Lawmakers and speculators are criticizing the bill as too lengthy. The question raised by them is how they are supposed to vote for the bill without going through it in the first place.
Mike Lee Senator from Utah said that the monstrous spending bill comes to 4,155 pages and what they deserve is proper consideration and the chance to read, debate, and amend not a backroom deal. He continued that opposing that was not radical and what radical is running the government in such a manner.
He further said the Bible is 1,200 pages long and questioned whether anyone could read the entire Bible in such a short time. The government was criticized for its move to pass the bill before Friday.
Elon Musk, the Chief Executive Officer of Twitter posted a poll on his verified account regarding the omnibus bill. In the tweet poll he asked the users should the $1.7 trillion omnibus bill be approved by Congress or not.
More than 70% of people voted for no in the poll. Musk opined that he was in accordion with the bill, he called it a small bill and said that the bill would keep things running. He continued that anyone with common sense would suggest that this be the least amount required through the holidays.
Although he said that putting pressure on someone to pass the giant spending bill that almost no one has read would not be in people’s interest.
Musk also posed a question on Twitter that asked how it was possible that there were funds for the borders of other countries, but not for their own country.
The mammoth spending bill is top in the controversy for more than many reasons. First of all the bill is of 1.7 trillion US Dollars. Another significant question that is slapping the bill is where the money is being spent.
Dan Bishop, a congressman said that the bill would prohibit the use of money for improving America’s border security. As per the current situation, the southern border of the nation is under a significant threat of an uncountable amount of human migration into American soil.
Bishop said that it expressly prohibits the CBP funding from being used to improve border security but at the same time, it allocates 410 million US Dollars towards the border security of Lebanon, Tunisia, Oman, Egypt, and Jordan.
Rand Paul Senator said that he brought along the 1.7 trillion, 4,000+ page Pelosi-Schumer omnibus spending bill that’s being fast-tracked through the Senate. He called it as an abomination and called that the process stinks.
He said that he and other allies would stand up to and say NO and that it was a no good rotten way to run the government.
The bill is also being criticized as it has allocated money in order to fund a federal building for Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the U.S. Congress. There is a provision of 575 million US Dollars for family planning and 65 million US Dollars for the protection of Salmons.
Another 3.6 million US Dollars has been apparently put aside for the construction of a Michelle Obama trail. The bill listed 45 billion US Dollars in order to aid and assist Ukraine in its current turmoil.
The US military is also supposed to be eligible to receive a prominent amount of funding under the bill. The military forces would be receiving an approximate amount of 858 billion US Dollars this fiscal year. The huge 1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill was mocked by Rand Paul, the Senator.
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He took printouts of the bill and kept them on the table while he was addressing the media. In the exchange with the media, he said that he does not trust the people behind this and he would never put them in charge of a Minute Mart and three gas stations, much less a 6 trillion US Dollars economy.
The bill excluded the expansion of the child tax credit, and multiple breaks in other individual and corporate taxes. It also excluded the Safe Banking Act, the permit for cannabis companies to bank their cash reserves.
The provision for Afgan evacuees in the US to receive permanent and lawful residency also did not make it to the bill.
An omnibus spending bill is a U.S. bill that is a compilation of many other appropriation bills such as the regular bills, the continuing resolutions, and the supplemental appropriation bills.
All these smaller ones are packaged into the omnibus spending bill and this can only be passed with one vote from each house.
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