President Donald Trump speaks about the spending bill during a press conference
U.S. President Donald Trump points to Congress' $1.3 trillion spending bill during a signing ceremony in the Diplomatic Room of the White House in Washington.
Telegraphing the outcome, an internal White House television feed advertised the event this way: "President Trump Participates in a Bill Signing".
The House passed the legislation earlier on Thursday, voting 256-167 with Democrats and Republicans coming together to pass it less than 24 hours after the 2,300-page bill was made public.
A stopgap measure may be needed to ensure federal offices aren't hit with a partial shutdown at midnight Friday when funding for the government expires. But the budget caps-busting deal drew serious conservative opposition.
Republicans won't be able to pass the measure without some Democratic votes, at least in the Senate, where 60 votes are required to end debate and advance the bill. Rand Paul, MD (R-Ky.). Trump rescinded it in September of past year, giving Congress six months to try and make it constitutional. The bill would provide more than $2 billion for school safety, far more than the $50 million the House passed in the STOP School Violence Act and more than the $100 million in the Senate version of a similar bill.
The spending package will significantly increase military spending which has been met with support most Republican members of Congress and the President. If one participant items, it can compel the federal government right into a quick closure, which is why lots of legislative viewers were seeing Kentucky Republican politician Sen.
"I am just down the street and will bring you a pen", Corker said.
"It's most like a "Saturday Night Live" skit", said Sen.
Triggering a 3rd government shutdown of the year would have been a deep embarrassment for the Republican-led Congress ahead of mid-term elections in November.
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The "Alexander-Collins" stabilization bill, introduced by Senators Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) and a handful of other Republicans, was not ultimately included in the omnibus. In a recent tweet, the former senator listed a variety of conservative policies that aren't being implemented and added, "Trump is doing what he can from executive, but Congress isn't keeping pace". David Perdue, R-Ga., who opposed the bill and speaks regularly to Trump.
Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., praised the compromise in a statement, saying that "no bill of this size is ideal". "But the question, as always, comes down to whether we're buying advanced capabilities for that future fight or just more of the same ..." House Speaker Paul Ryan says no bill that big is ideal. "You will be voting to take money from law-abiding taxpayers - some of whom are immigrants - and give that money to privately-run prisons that will make a profit off of each and every human being our government hands over to them for detention and then deportation", Luis Gutierrez, a Democrat from IL, said in a statement. Trump ended some of those payments as part of his effort to scuttle President Barack Obama's health care law, but Republicans have joined Democrats in trying to revive them.
"Most importantly, got $700 Billion to rebuild our Military, $716 Billion next year...most ever", Trump wrote.
"We had no choice but to fund our military", he said. Paul caused the government to briefly shut down in February when he filibustered a short-term spending bill under consideration at the time.
But Friday morning, President Trump says he was considering a veto of the bill, citing the lack of a DACA deal and border wall funding.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Thursday that the bill was the result of each party's leaders being willing to accept trade offs.
"No matter what you think about the bill, this process is something we have to stand up and say is unacceptable", Rep. Jim McGovern, R-Mass., said on the House floor.
Alexander-Collins would have included 3 years of funding for cost-sharing reduction subsidies (monies to help defray out-of -pocket costs for low-income patients on the ACA exchanges) and 3 years of funding for reinsurance, $30 billion in total, (to help pay for the highest cost patients).
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