Trump-Backed Spending Bill Fails in the House
WSJ What’s News
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🗓️ 20 December 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:58.2 | The U.S. House of Representatives last night rejected a slimmed down government spending bill |
| 1:03.6 | endorsed by President-elect Donald Trump. The revised legislation to avoid a shutdown just after |
| 1:09.6 | midnight tonight would have extended government |
| 1:12.1 | funding for three months and allocated more than a hundred billion dollars for disaster relief |
| 1:17.4 | and aid for farmers. It also stripped out a range of other provisions, including new rules on |
| 1:23.8 | pharmacy benefit managers and 9-11 health care funding, and to address Trump's demands, |
| 1:29.3 | would have suspended the nation's borrowing limit for two years. However, the bill came up far short |
| 1:35.4 | of winning even a simple majority in the GOP-controlled chamber, let alone the two-thirds supermajority |
| 1:41.5 | needed to pass through special fast-track procedures, with almost all Democrats and 38 Republicans voting against it. |
| 1:49.6 | Among them was Texas Republican Representative Chip Roy, who criticized the last-minute inclusion of language raising the debt ceiling, |
| 1:58.1 | something that hadn't figured in weeks of talks as the legislation |
| 2:01.5 | took shape. |
| 2:02.5 | To take this bill yesterday and congratulate yourself because it's shorter in pages but increases |
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