The House passed the more than 4,000-page spending measure mostly along party lines in a 225-201 vote that saw nine Republicans vote for the bill along with every Democrat except Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York. Another Democrat, Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, voted present.

 The bill provides $858 billion for defense, $787 billion for non-defense domestic programs and nearly $45 billion for military and humanitarian aid to Ukraine. It also includes more than 7,200 earmarks totaling more than $15 billion, and assures the government will be funded until the end of September 2023.

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"We had 18 Republicans, who joined with Democrats in the Senate, get on their fancy planes and go home, and we’re sitting here trying to do the work of the people, not spend money we don’t have, not drive up more inflation, not have 7,500 earmarks for $16 billion for pet leftist projects across this country," Roy said.

WASHINGTON (Wednesday, March 9, 2022) – Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) Wednesday released the

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Several GOP lawmakers blasted the monstrous $1.7 trillion spending bill released Tuesday morning out of the gate, with complaints that they were only given days to read the 4,155-page deal reached by some Senate Republicans and congressional Democrats in an effort to avert a government shutdown.

The "omnibus" bill funding the government through the end of its fiscal year on Sept. 30, 2023, without derailing the whole package.

What does the omnibus bill include?

The omnibus includes $772.5 billion for non-defense discretionary programs, including $118.7 billion – a 22 percent increase – for VA medical care, and $858 billion in defense funding.15 hours ago

Bishop revealed in a tweet thread that the package "expressly prohibits [Customs and Border Protection] funding from being used to improve border security," while "at the same time, allocates $410 million towards border security for" other nations, namely Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Tunisia, and Oman.

The North Carolina congressman also pointed to $1.438 billion in spending for membership in global multilateral organizations, including the United Nations, $65 million for restoring Pacific salmon populations, $3 million for what he called "bee-friendly highways" and an additional $5 million in further spending for salmon.

"And lest the other fish feel left out of the spending spree," Bishop tweeted, "here's $65.7 million for international fisheries commissions."

The lawmaker went on to highlight $575 million in spending for family planning or reproductive health in the bill targeted to "areas where population growth threatens biodiversity or endangered species," calling the provision "sinister."

Bishop went on to provide slew of earmarks in the bill, and noted a number of projects honoring Democrats, including a federal building named after retiring House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and a trail named after former First Lady Michelle Obama.

An omnibus bill is a single document that is accepted in a single vote by a legislature but packages together several measures into one or combines diverse subjects. Because of their large size and scope, omnibus bills limit opportunities for debate and scrutiny.

Medicaid redeterminations, which were halted due to the COVID-19 public health emergency, will begin again in April 2023 under the bill, regardless of PHE status. The Robert Wood Johnson foundation found this month that as many as 18 million Medicaid enrollees could lose their health insurance once the PHE expires. In August, the HHS projected that as many as 15 million could lose coverage.