WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate’s top Republican says there’s Senate agreement on a two-year, almost $400 billion budget deal that would provide Pentagon and domestic programs with huge spending increases.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced the pact, joined on the Senate floor by top Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer of New York. It would contain almost $300 billion over current limits on defense and domestic accounts.
McConnell said the measure would rewrite existing defense limits that have “hamstrung our armed forces and jeopardized our national security.”
The measure, aides said, also contains almost $90 billion in overdue disaster aid and an increase in the government borrowing cap that would prevent a first-ever U.S. government default on its obligations.
Schumer and the Senate Democrats getting ready to fold on DACA?
Shocking. Not.
The real question is how will this deal play in the house?
a. Will it be DOA in the House?
b. What about DACA? Time to level with the American people.
Big whoop! Where’s DACA (Dems want that)? Where’s changes to immigration and “the Wall” (Reps want that)? Who the hell is going to vote for it?
Nancy Pelosi just finished a long, filibuster-like statement on the House floor saying that many Democratic Reps won’t support this because it doesn’t address DACA. I’m not sure what this means in the terms of the likelihood of the “compromise” passing (and I’m already nauseous from the coverage claiming this is some kind of miracle)