2 Year budget deal

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Should have known that the *only* thing the GOP and the Liberal could agree on was to spend more money. Guess they couldn't figure out who would lose more if they had allowed another shutdown.

President Donald Trump on Friday signed into law a two-year budget deal that raises spending limits and suspends the debt ceiling for two more years.

The GOP-controlled Senate approved the bill, 67-28, on Thursday, after the Democratic-controlled House approved it, 284-149, last week.

The bill allows for a $320 billion increase in government spending, a number that rankled most Republicans in Congress and prompted many to vote against the deal. It also suspends the debt ceiling through mid-2021. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Trump had urged Republicans to support the bill.

The deal sets federal spending limits, increasing military and nonmilitary spending. Military spending would increase to $738 billion from $716 billion in fiscal 2020, which begins Oct. 1, and to $740.5 billion the subsequent fiscal year.

Nonmilitary programs, such as immigration and border enforcement, Medicaid, forest management and health programs, would grow to $632 billion from $605 billion next year and $634.5 billion the next year. It also adds to the deficit, which has risen since Trump came into office.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said this week that the budget agreement could reduce the likelihood of another government shutdown next month. Congress passed a spending package this year that only funded the government through September after a historic 35-day shutdown that crippled Washington.
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I will admit Trump has some Swamp on his shoes...but I’ll vote for him again.
 
I think we have many times said Trump was a Democrat prior to being a conservative...

He is at least trying to preserve the USA, instead of going to the one world government, or giving America's sovereign rights up to the UN or other global pacts as o'dummy was doing and what Hillary would have done.

Part of me thinks it was smart to not fight over the budget, however shutting Washington down is fine with me- I just hate having to listen to everyone whine about a shut down... because I am pleased ...we ought to permanently shut down a huge part of the federal government . I wish congress did not get paid unless they had a balanced budget that had to have a 5% reduction each year.
 
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