Biden signs a package of spending bills passed by Congress just hours before a shutdown deadline - East Idaho News

Mar 09, 2024 View Original Article
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    90% Negative

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Overall Sentiment

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"In signing it into law, Biden thanked leaders and negotiators from both parties in both chambers for their work, which the White House said will mean that agencies may continue their normal operations."
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12% Conservative
"To folks who worry that divided government means nothing ever gets done, this bipartisan package says otherwise, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said after lawmakers passed the measure Friday night just hours before a deadline."
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-6% Liberal
"This isn't the package I would have written on my own, said Sen. Patty Murray, the Democratic chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee."
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-6% Liberal
"Paul called the spending sort of the grease that eases in billions and trillions of other dollars, because you get people to buy into the total package by giving them a little bit of pork for their town, a little bit of pork for their donors."
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-10% Liberal
"But an effort by Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla, to strip out the projects mustered only 32 votes with 64 against."
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-16% Liberal
"President Joe Biden on Saturday signed a $460 billion package of spending bills approved by the Senate in time to avoid a shutdown of many key federal agencies."
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-22% Liberal
"RELATED | Congressional leaders come out with 6 spending bills in a drive to avoid a partial shutdownI would urge my colleagues to stop playing with fire here, said Sen. Susan Collins, the top-ranking Republican member of the Senate Appropriations Committee."
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-22% Liberal
"Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said one problem he sees with the bill is that there was too much compromise, and that led to too much spending."
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-28% Liberal
"Murray said Scott's effort would overrule all the hard work, all the input we asked everyone to provide us about projects that would help their constituents."
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2% Conservative
"Murray said Scott's effort would overrule all the hard work, all the input we asked everyone to provide us about projects that would help their constituents."
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2% Conservative

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