I wish it was that easy.
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The Pennsylvania Republican proposed to amend the bill by moving that funding back to discretionary spending, which is subject to annual congressional appropriations.
After Wednesday’s vote, Toomey said the failed cloture vote allows the upper chamber to amend the bill, adding that it was a “pretty easy fix.” “Once that’s done, this bill sails through this chamber and goes to the president and gets signed into law,” he said.
“Even on legislation this major and this costly, the Democratic leader tried to block the Senate from any semblance of a fair amendment process,” McConnell said, referring to Toomey’s amendment.
“As written, the legislation will not just help America’s veterans as designed, it would also allow *Democrats to effectively spend the same money twice and enable hundreds of billions in new unrelated spending on the discretionary side of the federal budget,” he said.
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* “…allow ‘Democrats” to effectively spend…”. In my book this is political hay in reality it means who ever is in congress democrat or republican because it all depends who is voted in at the time when spending bills are decided. I think, it’s not a bad idea to keep expenditures under discretionary spending.
And response? Even more political hay “ They voted for all of us to suffer. They are endorsing our suffering,”
I’m still confused. But I am quite certain it will get passed, eventually, in one form or another. Until then we will suffer through more partisan politics.