TIPSHEET_ WSJ Editors: Guess What We Found in the $1.7T Omnibus Bill?

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WSJ Editors: Guess What We Found in the $1.7T Omnibus Bill?

Guy Benson  | December 23, 2022 12:01 PM

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As Katie reported yesterday, the US Senate passed the 'Omnibus' spending bill yesterday, 68-29, with 18 Republicans joining all Democrats in voting yes. On substance, the legislation was a mixed bag for conservatives, attracting a mix of GOP appropriators, defense hawks, and moderates in support. The process of introduction, "debate," and final passage was, in a word, disgusting. One of the reasons I would have voted against this bill was summarized well by National Review's Philip Klein:


Just two days before an expected Senate vote, congressional leaders cooked up an outrageous $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill, demanding that lawmakers open wide and swallow its 4,155 pages so everybody can leave town for the year. This is a scandal. It is not a scandal to be added to the salacious and shocking catalogue of notorious Washington scandals, but a scandal precisely because what is happening has become a completely ordinary way for business to be conducted in Washington. The scandal is that it is so unremarkable. The scandal is that it will be repeated again and again, no matter which party is in power. Critics say that the omnibus shows that Washington is broken and that senators and members of Congress are incompetent. They lament the fact that lawmakers procrastinate to the last minute what they could have accomplished all year. In reality, the system is functioning just the way people in power want it to function.

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