It was an incredibly productive first two years of Biden's presidency. Now the hard part starts.
In the final act of the Democratic Party’s unified control of Washington, President Joe Biden is set to sign a $1.7 trillion spending bill next week, funding the federal government through most of next year and marking the end of a historically productive Congress for Democrats.
The 4,155-page bill is a sweeping measure that provides $772.5 billion for domestic priorities and $858 billion for defense. Additionally, the bill provides $45 billion for military aid to Ukraine, nearly $40 billion for disaster relief, and includes a number of policies that hitched a ride on the year-end spending legislation. Most notably, lawmakers included new safeguards for the counting of electoral votes, a proposal from Sen.
“The appropriations process has failed the American public, and there’s no greater example of the nail in the coffin of the greatest failure of a one-party rule of the House, the Senate and the presidency,” McCarthy said. Still, the omnibus will almost certainly be the final bill passed under Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s control of the House, and it is a classic representation of how Pelosi ran the House during her second speakership. There hasn’t been a single open rule since Pelosi took the Speaker’s gavel in 2019, meaning members haven’t been able to get votes on amendments to legislation without Pelosi and the Rules Committee’s sign-off.
But there’s no denying the effectiveness of Pelosi and the Democratic Party’s tactics. Not only did Democrats finish off their unified control of Congress with a spending bill chock full of their wishlist items, they also were able to pass some major legislative accomplishments during Biden’s first two years in Congress.
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