Different year, same story. Yet again, Congress has passed a bloated budget bill that nobody’s read at the very last minute to avoid a government shutdown – as if the federal government would ever really fully shut down, and as if that would be a terrible thing.
Around noontime Friday the House of Representatives passed a $1.2 trillion spending package, avoiding the dreaded “government shutdown,” sending that suite of bills to the Senate for passage. The bills passed the Senate after 2 AM, Eastern Daylight Time
BREAKING: Senate passes $1.2 trillion spending package, 74-24, after brief partial government shutdown pic.twitter.com/995aQBZ6c2
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The Senate missed the deadline by a few hours, so technically parts of the government were shut down during that time.
And the earth kept spinning.
Why the delay? Accoridng to Fox News Digital:
The upper…
