BREAKING: The House has passed a $1.5 trillion government funding package, providing $13.6 billion in measures to support Ukraine.
Separately, the House passed a short-term stopgap measure that funds the government at current levels after the current Friday deadline through Tuesday, March 15. That gives the Senate more time to consider and act on the omnibus funding measure.
While the House had previously passed some budget frameworks, the overall budget bill had been under negotiation for months, spurring frustration by the scramble to address the fix — which also delayed the start of House Democrats’ annual issues conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which was set to begin Wednesday night.
“Let's grow up about this, okay?” Pelosi said in a press conference. “We’re in a legislative process, we have a deadline for keeping the government open, we have a lively negotiation, it has to be bipartisan.” The omnibus package, funding every part of the government, includes a 6.7% increase in non-defense spending to $730 billion, the largest in four years, according to the House Appropriations Committee. It also includes an increase in defense spending, a key Republican priority, by 5.6% to $42 billion.
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