I'm Samantha Cheris, I'm Virginia Allen, and this is the Daily Signal Top News for

Tuesday, December 20th.

Here are today's headlines.

Conservative lawmakers are rallying against Democrat-led efforts to pass funding for the government

for the fiscal year that began on October 1st.

The text of the omnibus spending package was released in the early hours of Tuesday morning.

Oklahoma Senator Mike Braun told the Daily Signal earlier today that his staff is pouring

through the roughly 4100 page omnibus bill that he said is filled with earmarks again.

He also told the Daily Signal, I'm an appropriator, and I can't think of one conversation that

we've had jointly among appropriators about what this end product was going to be.

Braun, along with Republican senators Rick Scott of Florida, Rand Paul of Kentucky,

Mike Lee of Utah, and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin held a press conference on Tuesday.

During the press conference, Scott said, if we care about Americans, we've got to start

acting responsibly.

Giving us a bill at 1.28 in the morning that's over 4,000 pages that nobody will have the

opportunity to read that we'll have no idea what's in it is not the way to run your

personal life, your business life, or your government.

This has to stop.

A group of House Conservatives are promising to oppose and stime the legislative priorities

of any Republican Senator who votes in favor of the $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill

this week, our colleague Rob Louis reported earlier today.

The warning shot delivered via a letter from 13 Conservatives Monday night comes amid

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